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English noun: experience | |||
| 1. | experience (cognition) the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities | ||
| Samples | A man of experience. Experience is the best teacher. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | education | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | familiarisation, familiarization, woodcraft | ||
| Antonyms | inexperience, rawness | ||
| 2. | experience (cognition) the content of direct observation or participation in an event | ||
| Samples | He had a religious experience. He recalled the experience vividly. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive content, content, mental object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | life, living, re-experiencing, reality, reliving, reminder, world | ||
| 3. | experience (event) an event as apprehended | ||
| Samples | A surprising experience. That painful experience certainly got our attention. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | appalling, augury, blast, flash, flashing, foretoken, good time, head trip, loss, near-death experience, ordeal, out-of-body experience, preindication, sign, taste, time, trip, vision | ||
| Part holonym | high point | ||
English verb: experience | |||
| 1. | experience (perception) go or live through | ||
| Samples | We had many trials to go through. He saw action in Viet Nam. | ||
| Synonyms | go through, see | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | undergo | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | come, endure, enjoy, experience, feel, find, know, live, meet, see, suffer, suffer, witness | ||
| 2. | experience (cognition) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | ||
| Samples | I know the feeling!. Have you ever known hunger?. I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict. The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare. I lived through two divorces. | ||
| Synonyms | know, live | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | experience, go through, see | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | live over, relive, taste | ||
| 3. | experience (perception) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | ||
| Samples | Get an idea. Experience vertigo. Get nauseous. Receive injuries. Have a feeling. | ||
| Synonyms | get, have, receive | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | undergo | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | get, have, horripilate, suffer, sustain, take | ||
| Entail | comprehend, perceive | ||
| 4. | experience (emotion) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | ||
| Samples | She felt resentful. He felt regret. | ||
| Synonyms | feel | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | anger, beam, burn, chafe, congratulate, cool off, die, entertain, fly high, fume, glow, glow, harbor, harbour, hold, incline, joy, nurse, plume, pride, pride oneself, radiate, recapture, regret, rejoice, repent, rue, sadden, see red, shine, smolder, smoulder, suffer, sympathise, sympathize, take pride | ||
| 5. | experience (change) undergo | ||
| Samples | The stocks had a fast run-up. | ||
| Synonyms | have | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | encounter, meet, receive | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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