experience
undergo or live through a difficult experience
How often you will meet it
Rank 913 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 20,231 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- undergo or live through a difficult experience also: see, go through We had many trials to go throughhe saw action in Viet Nam
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations also: know, live I know the feeling!have you ever known hunger?
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences) also: receive, have, get get an ideaexperience vertigo
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind also: feel She felt resentfulHe felt regret
- undergo also: have The stocks had a fast run-up
noun
- the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities a man of experienceexperience is the best teacher
- the content of direct observation or participation in an event he had a religious experiencehe recalled the experience vividly
- an event as apprehended a surprising experiencethat painful experience certainly got our attention
experience in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Gloria's personal experience with nurses had been two to one girl.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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She knew that her mother always shared every experience with them.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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They had of life a too cruel experience not to mistrust their joy.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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This was the feast; and alas! never was the want of experience more strongly felt than here.
The Station · William Carleton · Chapter 1
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He walked on alone, chewing the cud of a delightful experience; trying, not unsuccessfully, to recall some of Mr. Desmond's anecdotes.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1