Dictionary entries for 'experience'

Synonyms

ex·pe·ri·ence (ĭk-spîŕē-əns)

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin experientia, from experiēns, experient- present participle of experīrī, to try.]

noun

The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind: a child's first experience of snow.
1. Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill: a lesson taught by experience; a carpenter with experience in roof repair.
2. The knowledge or skill so derived.
1. An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
2. The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.

To participate in personally; undergo: experience a great adventure; experienced loneliness.