Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Learning

Nouns
  • learning
  • acquisition of knowledge etc. Knowledge, acquisition of skill etc. Skill
  • acquirement, attainment
  • edification, scholarship, erudition
  • acquired knowledge, lore, wide information
  • self-instruction
  • study, reading, perusal
  • inquiry etc. Thought. apprenticeship, prenticeship
  • pupilage, pupilarity
  • tutelage, novitiate, matriculation. docility etc. (willingness) Willingness
  • aptitude etc. Skill.
Verbs
  • learn
  • acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning. acquaint oneself with, master
  • make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with
  • grind, cram
  • get up, coach up
  • learn by heart, learn by rote. read, spell, peruse
  • con over, pore over, thumb over
  • wade through
  • dip into
  • run the eye over, run the eye through
  • turn over the leaves. study
  • be studious etc. adj.. [study intensely] burn the midnight oil, consume the midnight oil, mind one's book
  • cram. go to school, go to college, go to the university
  • matriculate
  • serve an apprenticeship, serve one's apprenticeship, serve one's time
  • learn one's trade
  • be informed etc. Information
  • be taught etc. Teaching. [stop going to school voluntarily (intransitive)] drop out, leave school, quit school
  • graduate
  • transfer
  • take a leave. [cause to stop going to school (transitive)] dismiss, expel, kick out of school. [stop going to school involuntarily] flunk out
  • be dismissed etc.
Adjectives
Adverbs
  • at one's books
Phrases
  • a lumber-house of books in every head" [Pope]
  • hold high converse with the mighty dead" [Thomson]
  • lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod" [Gay].