English Explanatory Dictionary

experience

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. An activity one has performed.
  3. A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
  4. The knowledge thus gathered.
  5. A business offering in which a major focus is the way that the customer interacts with the business throughout the transaction, as opposed to only its outcome (the product or service).
  6. Synonym of experience points
  7. Trial; a test or experiment.
verb
  1. 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.

Pronunciation

/ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪəns/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-experience.wav /ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.əns/ en-us-experience.ogg

Word forms

experience experiences experiencing experienced

Etymology

From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); see expert and peril. Displaced native Old English āfandung (“experience”) and āfandian (“to experience”).

Synonyms

experience points undergo have

Antonyms

inexperience

Derived words

boyfriend experience chalk something up to experience chief experience officer coexperience customer experience developer experience eggsperience experienced experience effect experience is the best teacher experienceless experience meeting experience point experience points experiencer experience table experiencewise experiential girlfriend experience inner experience interexperience learn from experience lived experience near-death experience nonexperience out-of-body experience out-of-box experience out-of-the-body experience pornstar experience postexperience pseudoexperience put something down to experience real-life experience sexperience unexperience work experience experienceable nonexperiencing re-experience. reexperience
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