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LARN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does larn mean?
• LARN (verb)
The verb LARN has 1 sense:
1. gain knowledge or skills
Familiarity information: LARN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gain knowledge or skills
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
Context example:
Children acquire language at an amazing rate
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "larn"):
relearn (learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it)
catch up (learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened)
absorb; assimilate; ingest; take in (take up mentally)
hit the books; study (learn by reading books)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
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