Definitions for experience
ɪkˈspɪər i ənsex·pe·ri·ence

Princeton's WordNet(3.49 / 20 votes)Rate this definition:

1. experiencenoun

   the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities

   "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher"

2. experiencenoun

   the content of direct observation or participation in an event

   "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"

3. experienceverb

   an event as apprehended

   "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"

4. experience, see, go throughverb

   go or live through

   "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"

5. know, experience, liveverb

   have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations

   "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"

6. experience, receive, have, getverb

   go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

   "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"

7. feel, experienceverb

   undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind

   "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"

8. have, experienceverb

   undergo

   "The stocks had a fast run-up"

Wiktionary(3.50 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. experiencenoun

   Event(s) of which one is cognizant.

   It was an experience he would not soon forget.

2. experiencenoun

   Activity which one has performed.

3. experiencenoun

   Collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.

4. experiencenoun

   The knowledge thus gathered.

5. experienceverb

   To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Experiencenoun

   trial, as a test or experiment

   Etymology: [F. exprience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, experientis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of peritus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.]

2. Experiencenoun

   the effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering

   Etymology: [F. exprience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, experientis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of peritus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.]

3. Experiencenoun

   an act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war

   Etymology: [F. exprience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, experientis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of peritus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.]

Freebase(4.80 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Experience

   Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event. The history of the word experience aligns it closely with the concept of experiment. For example, the word experience could be used in a statement like: "I have experience in fishing". The concept of experience generally refers to know-how or procedural knowledge, rather than propositional knowledge: on-the-job training rather than book-learning. Philosophers dub knowledge based on experience "empirical knowledge" or "a posteriori knowledge". The interrogation of experience has a long tradition in continental philosophy. Experience plays an important role in the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. The German term Erfahrung, often translated into English as "experience", has a slightly different implication, connoting the coherency of life's experiences. A person with considerable experience in a specific field can gain a reputation as an expert. Certain religious traditions and educational paradigms with, for example, the conditioning of military recruit-training, stress the experiential nature of human epistemology. This stands in contrast to alternatives: traditions of dogma, logic or reasoning. Participants in activities such as tourism, extreme sports and recreational drug-use also tend to stress the importance of experience.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Experience

   eks-pē′ri-ens, n. thorough trial of: practical acquaintance with any matter gained by trial: repeated trial: long and varied observation, personal or general: wisdom derived from the changes and trials of life.—v.t. to make trial of, or practical acquaintance with: to prove or know by use: to suffer, undergo.—p.adj. Expē′rienced, taught by experience: skilful: wise.—adjs. Expē′rienceless, having no experience; Experien′tial, pertaining to or derived from experience.—ns. Experien′tialism; Experien′tialist.—Experience meeting, a religious meeting, where those present relate their religious experiences. [Fr.,—L. experientia, from experīri—ex, inten., and old verb perīri, to try.]

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. experience

   1. The germ of power. 2. The name every one gives his mistakes. 3. Stinging and getting stung.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. experience

   To feel and live.

   They did experience much joy at the birth of their child.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 20, 2020  

2. experience

   To participate, feel, know and understand.

   We do experience beautiful moments every day as we go through our day.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 10, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'experience' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #483

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'experience' in Written Corpus Frequency: #799

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'experience' in Nouns Frequency: #147

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'experience' in Verbs Frequency: #299

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of experience in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of experience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of experience in a Sentence

1. Emeasoba George:

   Hope is synonymous with expectation. In the sense that, whatever you earnestly expect is what you will experience. So what has been your hope all these while? Whatever/however, you've got to hope for riches never poverty, hope for success never failure, hope for greatness never commonness, hope for salvation never damnation.

2. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   1. The soul seems to consist of billions of stars of dreams and hopes. We are unknown worlds even for ourselves, our mood and sensations are nature. In space, you can live billions of lives and billions of moods as moods of nature. An endless abundance of varieties of images of life experiences, the universe lulls us with dreams and depth of knowledge. 2. Life is a philosophical lens Life is how we see it, it is the philosophical lens of a video camera in our minds, the philosophical video effect of the video of our memory. 3. Genes and philosophy Chemistry anatomical biology develops gene philosophy. 4. Money is an evolutionary, infantile stagnation in the development of the brain. At the expense of money, a person seeks to return to childhood and stay there. 5. Advertising is a lawyer who, through hypnosis, proves the genius or stupidity of a person or a product through herd instinct, to elevate or destroy. Advertising can turn a criminal into a victim. Advertising does not care which side it is on, it matters who pays more. Advertising manipulates selfishness, it creates the illusion of general selfishness that unites and creates the mass thinking of conformism. All that you see around you is all advertising. Advertising is music, cinema, literature, everything related to the visual arts, science, philosophy, culture, etc. All this is a temporary fashionable propaganda of thinking. Manipulation through advertising where you have been convinced of something for centuries. 6. Inflation and exchange rates will increase the number of divorces, more orphans and single-parent families. 7. The genitals hinder the evolutionary development of the brain, since the trends of modern culture develop at the expense of the genitals, inflation, selfishness, infantilism, etc. The world will heal profundity. 8. Selfishness is an abstraction of lies, surrealism of self-deception. 9. Marketing of selfish dogmas and propaganda is the architecture of modern thinking in which modern theories and hypotheses and other kinds of opinions are placed that grow to the level of dogmas. 10. The human world is built through knowledge, namely through awareness. Books are a pillar and foundation. But awareness is the very building piercing the clouds, the building of the universe soaring into space like a spaceship plows through the depths of space of profundity. We reach the pinnacle of knowledge through the experience and opinions of other people who comprehend this world with the help of intuition, which is the main navigator in the development of culture and science. A person feels the weight of the evolutionary degeneration of the brain and heart and soul. The mind gains wings and freedom. The source of knowledge fills life with meaning so everything converges in its place and becomes understandable and the fear of ignorance decreases. Thinking is built through books, but intuition is a wormhole into endless depths of awareness and a look into the future. The abundance of opinions of theories of hypotheses speaks of ignorance and selfishness of vanity. Through books we learn the anatomy of philosophy. In books we accumulate someone else's experience and other people's insights and feel more fulfilling and more alive. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

3. Paul Spoonley:

   I think Massey University in Auckland's really important that a political system represents the diversity including the ethnic diversity of a population, and that's because they bring that voice and experience.

4. Linda Kay Klein:

   The sex was n’t traumatic, it was quite beautiful because I ’d learned, by that point, to separate sexuality from spirituality, it felt like a holy experience — as if God was in the room with us.

5. Johann Huizinga:

   Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

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