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Definition: Experience |
ExperienceNoun1. 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. The content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly". 3. An event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention". Verb1. Go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam". 2. 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". 3. Of mental or physical states or experiences: "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling". 4. Undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret". 5. Undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "experience" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Satire | EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. Joel Frad Bink. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Experience is knowledge of and skill in something gained through being involved in it or exposed to it over a period of time. It generally refers to know-how or procedural knowledge, rather than propositional knowledge. Knowledge based on experience is also known as empirical knowledge or a posteriori knowledge. A person with considerable experience in a certain field is called an expert.If someone is recounting an event they witnessed or took part off they are said to have had a "First hand experience".
Experience points is a number used in almost all Role Playing Games to formulate how long ones character has progressed in the game. It is usually abbrevated to "exp" or "xp" in such games.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Experience."
Synonyms: ExperienceSynonyms: feel (v), get (v), go through (v), have (v), know (v), live (v), receive (v), see (v), undergo (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inexperience (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Eventuality | Noun: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent. |
Meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; endure; (feel). | |
Feeling | Noun: feeling; suffering; Verb: endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy; (love); impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense. |
Bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby; abide; (be composed); experience; (meet with); taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand. | |
Infrequency | Adjective: unfrequent, infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience; not since Adam. |
Knowledge | Phrase: one's eyes being opened; (disclosure); ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner; empta dolore docet experientia;gr/gnothi seauton/gr "half our knowledge we must snatch not take"; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"; "knowledge is power"; les affaires font les hommes; nec scire fas est omnia; "the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds"; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss. |
Noun: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation; (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics. | |
Conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy, appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience. | |
Loss | Verb: lose; incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss; miss; mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be without; (exempt) a; forfeit. |
Pain | Verb: feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain; Noun: smart, ache; (physical pain); suffer, bleed, ail; be the victim of. |
Penitence | Verb: repent, be sorry for; be penitent; Adjective: rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under; (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess; (disclose); humble oneself; beg pardon; (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes; (do penance); learn by experience. |
Physical Pain | Verb: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain. Noun: suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles. |
Physical Pleasure | Verb: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips. |
Pleasure | Verb: be pleased; feel pleasure, experience pleasure; Noun: joy; enjoy oneself, hug oneself; be in clover; be in elysium; tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Experience |
| Specialty definitions using "experience": Software Practice and Experience. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "experience": Understander. (references) |
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Screenplays | I have fast food experience. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating (The African Queen; writing credit: C.S. Forester; James Agee) I had an experience, I can't proof and can't explain, but everything that I know as a human being, tells me that it was real (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) Really? Because for most people it's a rather enjoyable experience. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) 26 years of experience working against him. He figures anything big enough to sink the ship they're gonna see in time to turn (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) | |
Lyrics | The remedy is the experience (The Remedy (I Won't Worry); performing artist: JASON MRAZ) Experience has made me rich (Material Girl; performing artist: Madonna) This experience (Never Too Far; performing artist: Mariah Carey) | |
Clever | Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald. (references; author: Belgian Proverb) Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. (references; author: unknown) Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. (references; author: unknown) The lesson is what you read in the fine print. The experience is what you get when you don't. (references; author: unknown) Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they will beat you with experience. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nothing Like Experience (1970) One Man's Experience (1952) Children Learning by Experience (1947) Ears of Experience (1937) A Woman of Experience (1931) | |
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![]() | Astronauts Experience Weightlessness in the KC-135. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Stations used by Maurice Ewing in 1st offshore seismic reflection experiment Conducted on board C&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER Helped prove feasibility of measuring depth to basement rock from a ship Work done with C&GS because of radio acoustic ranging experience The beginning of offshore geophysical exploration. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Experience with TIROS showed that bright clouds with relatively well-defined edges and isolated from a main cloud mass, could be indicators of severe weather Shortly after this photograph, the southernmost cloud spawned a tornado. TIROS I, orbit 820. Credit: NOAA in Space. | WOW, the Wonderful Outdoor World program, brings a taste of a real camping experience to urban youth. Credit: Unknown. | |
A visitor to Arizona public lands relives a time honored experience, gold panning. Credit: UNknown. | ![]() | View on the monitor's deck, probably taken while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, in 1864-65. Probably photographed by the Matthew Brady organization. Note her turret, with a XV" Dahlgren smoothbore in one gun port (center) and a smaller gun (probably an 8" Parrott rifle) in the other. Also note armored pilothouse atop the turret, armor plates and turret base ring added to the ship on the basis of combat experience, the 12-pounder Dahlgren howitzer mounted on an iron field carriage, and the bitt in the foreground. Credit: NAVY. | |
![]() | An experienced performer : Ring-master Platt--Now Chauncey, have you ever had any experience with an elephant before, sir? Clown-- No, sir, but I had a great deal of experience with a mule once. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. Tough soldiers all. The men of this light tank crew, in training near Fort Knox, Kentucky, are getting the experience and the hardening needed to break the Axis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Experience in gas-welding light metal frames for an Eastern window screen manufacturer was an valuable asset to many employees when the company began producing navigator windows for American bombers. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Courage, experience, understanding : Mario A. Procaccino, Mayor, Abraham D. Beame, Comptroller, Francis X. Smith, Council President. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Dread" by Marieke Van Schelven Commentary: "I friend of me making picture for her school, she also ask me for her pictures... it was my first model experience.. ." | "SunNeedle" by Peter Gunn Commentary: "Reflection of the sun and space needle of the experience music project building Seattle, Washington." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Reading the scriptures is an uplifting experience. |
Dante Alighieri | The experience of this sweet life. |
Heinrich Heine | Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. |
Henry Adams | All experience is an arch, to build upon. |
Henry David Thoreau | Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. |
Henry James | Deep experience is never peaceful. |
John Locke | No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. |
Oscar Wilde | Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. |
Sir Philip Sidney | All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | It was no wonder that they should pitch upon, and naturally run into that form of government, which from their infancy they had been all accustomed to; and which, by experience, they had found both easy and safe. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience." What does this accusation reduce itself to? The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations who by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position can best undertake this responsibility, and who are willing to accept it, and that this tutelage should be exercised by them as Mandatories on behalf of the League. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It would nevertheless be wrong and imprudent to entrust the secret knowledge or experience of the atomic bomb, which the United States, Great Britain, and Canada now share, to the world organization, while it is still in its infancy. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | At her age she can have no experience, and with her little wit, is not very likely ever to have any that can avail her. |
A Grief Observed | C.S. Lewis | If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Let me illustrate these last two forms of danger, from my own experience. |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | The islanders, whose experience was of a different kind, were instead struck by how little it looked like a lobster |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She had, in addition to her former expression, that mixture of fear and sorrow which the experience of a prison adds to misery |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Whatever he had heard or read of the craft of jesuits he had put aside frankly as not borne out by his own experience. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And we often find by experience that young men are too opinionative and volatile to be guided by the sober dictates of their seniors |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Has experience with your condition. (references) | |
Other people may experience severe symptoms daily. (references) | ||
You might experience a thickening around your waist. (references) | ||
Business | They also refer to the experience of the referenced users. (references) | |
This opens opportunity to firms with experience in such projects. (references) | ||
Call center services are expected to experience considerable growth. (references) | ||
Children | Ecuador | The children of the poor often experience severe hardships, especially in urban areas. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Children of Haitian descent experience difficulties attending school due to their lack of official status. (references) | |
Macau | Persons with Disabilities The extent to which physically disabled persons experience discrimination in employment, education, and provision of state services is not known fully. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Iran | Baha'is often experience difficulty in obtaining passports. (references) |
Tajikistan | Independent stations continued to experience administrative and legal harassment. (references) | |
Swaziland | Non-Christian groups sometimes experience minor delays in obtaining permits from the Government. (references) | |
Discrimination | Swaziland | Mixed race citizens sometimes experience governmental and societal discrimination. (references) |
United Kingdom | The 1976 Race Relations Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, nationality, or national or ethnic origin and prohibits incitement to racial hatred; however, some groups continued to experience official and societal discrimination. (references) | |
Economic History | Norway | The U.S. has great experience it can transfer in such fields. (references) |
Human Rights | Haiti | Prisons continued to experience water shortages. (references) |
Gambia | Local jails continued to experience overcrowding. (references) | |
South Africa | The Additional Courts use private sector employees or retirees with judicial experience. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Chile | Indigenous people also experience some societal discrimination. (references) |
Minorities | Nauru | Nonnative Pacific Island workers experience some discrimination. (references) |
Tajikistan | Baha'i and Hare Krishna groups experience limited discrimination. (references) | |
Political Economy | Malawi | Violence against women is common, and women continued to experience severe societal discrimination. (references) |
CHINA | U.S. pharmaceutical companies continue to experience difficulties obtaining protection for their products. (references) | |
ROMANIA | On average, women experience a higher rate of unemployment than men and earn lower wages despite educational equality. (references) | |
Political Rights | Rwanda | This fear was based on historical experience; however, there were no reports of reprisals following the March elections. (references) |
Marshall Islands | Women's cultural responsibilities and traditionally passive roles and the generally early age of pregnancies can make it difficult for women to obtain political qualifications or experience. (references) | |
Qatar | Impediments that prevent or hinder women from participating in politics include lack of experience and role models, and the traditional society, in which women are expected to be mothers and caretakers. (references) | |
Trade | Mexico | Most small and medium Mexican firms lack the experience of working through a letter of credit. (references) |
Israel | This practice is appropriate and recommended when there is no past relationship and experience with the buyer. (references) | |
Vietnam | The Vietnamese banking system continues to experience credibility problems in the international financial community. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | Doctors with U.S. experience and other medical professionals are abundant. (references) |
West Bank | The owners of larger enterprises have international contacts and worldwide experience. (references) | |
Yemen | Yemen's large cities often experience rolling blackouts because of insufficient power capacity. (references) | |
Women | Nigeria | Women also experience considerable discrimination. (references) |
Kuwait | Women continue to experience legal and social discrimination. (references) | |
Romania | Few resources are available for women who experience economic discrimination. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Panama | Both agencies suffer from budget constraints and experience difficulty attracting qualified personnel and resources. (references) |
Zambia | Unions continued to experience increasing fragmentation due to a shrinking formal sector and 1993 changes in labor laws that decreased union leverage. (references) | |
Cyprus | Under the law, the Government must also provide shelter and medical and psychiatric care until the victims have recovered from any traumatic experience. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Barry Manilow | The best, and the studio singers, the background singers taught me how to do harmonies, how to sound different. It was a great three-year learning experience. It was college for me. |
Christopher Reeve | Well I do exercises what's called a toe table where can experience what's like to bear weight. I practice standing up vertically on this strapped to a table and I do something called a Regis cycle which has have been very kindly donated to me. |
Dennis Miller | For every person with a bad childhood who becomes a serial killer, there are a thousand who learn from that experience to be better parents to their own kids. |
Jesse Ventura | Well, first of all, President Bush is going to experience the same thing, too. Approval ratings are just the way the wind happens to be blowing that week. And it's very difficult. |
Judy Sheindlin | That's true. But you are supposed to bring with you to the bench, especially the bench in the family court, a life's experience. |
Liza Minnelli | Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish. |
Lynne Cheney | Oh, it's such a big job, you know. And it gives you the scope to use all of the experience and the talent that you've developed over the years. |
Mark Shields | Not ready to decide, Bob. And in my experience in politics, the decision not to decide is usually a decision not to run. He didn't sound like a guy who was eager to take on either Tom DeLay or Roy Blunt at this point. |
Regis Philbin | To go to South Bend was really an eye-opening experience for me. But it was wonderful. I mean, Notre Dame, right away, I felt that spirit. |
Robert Shapiro | I'm going to try. It was a wonderful experience, a great learning experience, a tremendous discipline. But also, on top of a read, I think what I wanted to get across was to be a facilitator for an issue that hasn't been discussed yet. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Experience accordingly has shewn that they are very cheap instruments of immense national benefits. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | But, in fact and experience, it has not been found so. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Ours is a progressive people, but with a determination that progress must be based upon the foundation of experience. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | A great many veterans and workers with new skills and experience will want to start in for themselves. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | To speak from this same historic rostrum is a sobering experience. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Let us now join reason to faith and action to experience, to transform our unity of interest into a unity of purpose. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We all know from recent experience what runaway inflation does to ruin every other worthy purpose. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | One might say that our new relationship in part reflects the triumph of hope and strength over experience. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I think this is such a big issue with me because of my own personal experience. |
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| "Experience" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.09% of the time. "Experience" is used about 20,439 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.09% | 18,823 | 488 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.81% | 1,188 | 6,507 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.09% | 428 | 13,385 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20,439 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "experience": acquired by experience ♦ crucial experience ♦ educational experience ♦ Experience table ♦ extended experience ♦ from experience ♦ gain experience ♦ gaining experience ♦ gather experience ♦ guided experience ♦ have no experience of smth. ♦ know by experience ♦ lack experience ♦ lack of experience ♦ learn by experience ♦ New Millenium Experience Company ♦ not within one's previous experience ♦ perceptual experience ♦ practical experience ♦ previous experience ♦ professional experience ♦ sense experience ♦ software Practice and Experience ♦ To experience religion ♦ work experience. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "experience": experience-based, experience-centred, experience-curve, experience-exchange, experience-independent, experience-is, experience-rated, experience-related, experience-without-knowledge. | |
Ending with "experience": life-experience, post-experience, re-experience, sense-experience, work-experience. | |
Containing "experience": learning-experience-curve. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "experience"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ondervinding, ervaring, deurmaak (go through, live, live through, live to see, survive). (various references) | |
Albanian | eksperiencë (acquirements), e di në përvoje, tërbim (exasperation, furor, fury, hydrophobia, ire, lyssa, madness, rabies, rage, ragging, rampage, rampancy, rave, wrath), stazh (ageing, aging, attachment, clerkship, probation), provoj (assay, attest, demonstrate, deprive, essay, establish, fit on, make good, manifest, presume, pretend, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, substantiate, suffer, taste, test, try, try on, try out, validate, venture, witness), përvojë profesionale, përvojë (acquirements, experiences, qualifications), përshtypje (account, conception, effect, impress, impression, sense, sound), përjetoj (overlive), ngjarje (circumstance, development, episode, event, happening, incident, occurrence), ndiej (feel, perceive), mjeshtëri (accomplishment, art, artifice, artistry, expertise, finesse, hand, handicraft, masterliness, mastership, mastery, neatness, profession, proficiency, skill, workmanship), aventurë (adventure, escapade, venture). (various references) | |
Arabic | لاقى (encounter, happen on, receive, suffer), قاسى (bear, endure, suffer, sustain, undergo), واجه (be faced with, be facing, brave, confront, cope, encounter, face, head, manage, meet, pull faces, shoulder, square, stand up, stand up to), حنكة (cleverness, nimbleness), تجربة (assay, attempt, experiment, go, proof, shot, test, trial, try, whirl), عانى (bear, brook, know, pain, stick, suffer), خبرة (expertise, know how, practise), جرب (experiment, give it a try, give it a whirl, have a go, pilot, proof, scab, tempt, test, try, try out), إختبار (exam, experiment, ordeal, proof, quiz, test, trial), إختبر (examine, prove, tempt, test, try). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | случка (event, fact, hap, happening, incident, occurrence, passage), квалификация (background, efficiency, qualification, timber, training), опитност (background, proficiency), опит (attempt, crack, essay, experiment, go, go off, shot, shy, stab, tentative, trial, try, whack, whirl), научавам от опит, претърпявам (have, meet with, suffer, undergo), преживяване (survival), преживявам (emote, have, live through, meet with, outlive, outwear, overlive, pass through, rub along, rub on, see, subsist, survive, undergo), преживелица (hangover, throwback), практика (practice, praxis), познания (acquaintance, experiences, knowledge, learning, science), изпитвам (assay, condition, essay, examine, feel, proof, prove, question, quiz, sample, see, test, try, undergo). (various references) | |
Chinese | 經驗 (to experience), 經歷 (go through), 经验, 感受 (feel). (various references) | |
Czech | zkušenost (practice), zakusit (endure, suffer, try, undergo), zažít (undergo), zážitek, praxe (practice), poznat (identify, know, learn, meet, recognize, taste), pocítit, mít (derive, Harbor, harbour, have, keep, possess, suffer, to have). (various references) | |
Danish | oplevelse, erfaring. (various references) | |
Dutch | ervaring, ondervinding, belevenis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | travivi (live through, survive), travivaĵo, sperto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | uppliving, roynd (attempt, test). (various references) | |
Farsi | کارازمودگی , کشیدن (Chart, Drag, Draw, Drawl, Entrain, Figure, Hale, Haul, Heave, Lave, Lengthen, Peg, Pluck, Pull, Strain, Strap, String, Suffer, Trace, Trawl, Weigh), ورزیدگی (Skill), تمرین دادن (Exercise), تحمل کردن (Bear, Bide, Comport, Endure, Stomach, Suffer, Support, Sustain, Tolerate, Undergo, Withstand), تجربه کردن (Experiment), تجربه (Experiment), ازمایش (Assay, Examination, Experiment, Shy, Temptation, Test, Trial, Try, Tryout), اروین . (various references) | |
Finnish | elämys, elämänkokemus, saada jotakin osakseen (attract, gain, meet with), kokemus, kokea (meet with, suffer, undergo), harjaantuneisuus (training). (various references) | |
French | expérience (experiment, expertise), expérimenter (experiment, experimentation), éprouver. (various references) | |
German | Erlebnis (adventure, affair), erfahrung (empirical knowledge, practical knowledge), routine (routine, routines), erfahren (accomplished, adept, adeptly, experienced, expert, find out, hear, learn, learn of, learned, learnt, practiced, proficient, receive, seasoned, skilfull, skillfull, sophisticated, suffer, to adept, undergo, versatile). (various references) | |
Greek | εμπειρία (adeptness, experience in / of). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לעבור עליו (occur to, suffer from), לחוות חויה, לחוות (be deeply impressed), להתנסות (undergo), ותיקות (seniority), חויה (deep impression, sensation), חוויה, התנסות (experiencing, gaining experience). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tapasztalat (observations), élmény. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengalaman, mengenyam (taste, undergo), melalui (by means of, pass through, via), garam (a mineral salt, effectiveness, salt). (various references) | |
Italian | esperienza (experiment). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 覚え (memory, sense), 見聞き (information, observation), 経験 , 経験 , 事 (business, circumstances, fact, matter, reason, thing), 想い (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, feelings, heart, hope, imagination, love, mind, sentiment, thought, wish), 思い (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, feelings, heart, hope, imagination, love, mind, sentiment, thought, wish), 慣れ (practice), 例 (case, custom, example, illustration, instance, parallel, precedent, usage), 体得 (comprehension, knack, mastery, realization), 場慣れ (poise in a critical situation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいとく (comprehension, knack, mastery, realization), ためし (case, custom, example, illustration, instance, parallel, precedent, test, trial, usage), おぼえ (memory, sense), おもい (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, feelings, heart, heavy, hope, imagination, important, love, massive, mind, oppressed, sentiment, serious, severe, thought, wish), なれ (practice), ばなれ (accustomed, experienced, poise in a critical situation), こと (ancient city, business, circumstances, covering up, fact, former capital, glossing over, Koto, matter, reason, thing), れい (actor, case, cold, command, companion, cool, custom, departed soul, dictation, example, expression of gratitude, ghost, illustration, instance, nought, order, parallel, precedent, soul, spirit, usage, zero), けいけん (devout, modest, pious), みきき (information, observation). (various references) | |
Korean | 경험 (Experiencing). (various references) | |
Manx | taghyrt (accident, chance, contingency, contingent, event, eventuate, fluke, happen, happening, incident, occur, occurrence), keeayl chionnit (disillusion), ennaghtyn (atmosphere, feel, feeling, gratitude, noble sentiments, perceive, realization, sensation, sense, sensibility, sympathy). (various references) | |
Norwegian | erfaring. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | experienceay.(various references) | |
Polish | przeżycie, przeżyć (live through, survive), doświadczenie. (various references) | |
Portuguese | experiência (background, essay, experiment, experimentation, feedback, probation, proof, test, trial, try, try-out). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | experiência. (various references) | |
Romanian | experienţã (essay, experiment, praxis, proficiency, skill, test, trial), experimenta (experiment, test, try), rutinã (groove, routine, rut), îndura (abide, bear, carry out, endure, forbear, indurate, put up with, stick, suffer, support, sustain, undergo), afla (appear, be, consider, discover, find, hear, learn, see, strike, suppose, think, understand), apuca (apprehend, captivate, capture, catch, clutch, comprehend, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, nab, nip, pull up, seize, snap, snatch, take), gusta (enjoy, feel, relish, sip, taste, try, undergo), încerca (aim, assay, attempt, bother, endeavor, endeavour, essay, fit on, make, offer, sample, taste, tempt, test, try, undergo, undertake), retrãi (relive, revive), trece prin (course, draw, foot, get through, go through, pass through, perambulate, permeate, run, squeeze through, strain), simţi (be, feel, scent, sense, smoke), suferi (abide, ail, allow, bear, Brook, carry out, endure, go through, have, languish, permit, put up with, smart, stand, stick, suffer, undergo), trãi (abide, be, breathe, dwell, endure, exist, keep, live, move, run, subsist, suffer), trãire (feelings), trãire a unei întâmplãri, trãire a unui eveniment, resimţi (feel). (various references) | |
Russian | стаж (length of service, record of service, work seniority), убеждаться на опыте, случай (accident, case, chance, emergency, event, fortuity, hap, happening, incident, occasion, occurrence), чувствовать (feel, sensate, sense), квалификация (qualification, qualifications, skill), опыт (essay, experiment, test, trial), навык (acquired habit, acquirements, skill), приключение (adventure), получать;испытывать опыт, переживание, испытывать (assay, be effected by, essay, give it a try, have, try, try out, try over, undergo), испытание (assay, dry run, experiment, noviciate, novitiate, probation, proof, test, touch, trial, try), изведать (come to know). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | staž (internship, training), osetiti (feel, get the feel of it, perceive, sensate), okusiti (taste), iskustvo, doživljaj (adventure), doživeti (live). (various references) | |
Spanish | experiencia (experiment, skill). (various references) | |
Sranan | ondrofeni. (various references) | |
Swedish | upplevelse (event, treat), vana (custom, fashion, habit, institution, knack, practice, rule, way, wont), uppleva (go through, know, live through, live to, live to see, pass through, see, taste, witness), erfarenhet, erfara (learn, taste). (various references) | |
Turkish | maruz kalmak (be exposed, be liable to, be subject of, catch, fall into, incur, sustain), başına gelmek (befall, come over, get, happen, meet, receive, undergo), başından geçmek (fare, happen, know, live through, pass through), denemek (assay, attempt, chance, condition, essay, experiment, give it a shot, give it a try, have a go, have a go at, have a shy at, have a stab at, have a try, prove, put, put to the touch, sample, take a chance, take a whack at, test, try, try on, try out), deneyim (experimentation), din değiştirme (conversion, desertion, proselyte, tergiversation), görmek (behold, catch sight of, consider, espy, get sight of, observe, see, see into, sight, spot, transact, view, wake to, waken), başa gelen olay, karşılaşmak (come across, come on, come upon, cross, cross each other, drop a cross, encounter, fall with, greet, meet, run across, run up against smb.), yaşamak (affect, dwell, exist, inhabit, live, subsist, taste), olay (accident, affair, case, circumstance, episode, event, fact, happening, incident, instance, occurrence, scene), pratik (applied, businesslike, convenient, handy, practical, practice, praxis, rough and ready), tatmak (die, extract, know, sample, taste, try), tecrübe (experimentation, knowledge, tentative), tecrübe etmek (have a shy at, prove), uğramak (call at, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, drop around, drop in, drop in on, fall into, incur, look up, meet, put in an appearance, receive, run against, run in, stop by, stop in, sustain, touch at, undergo, visit), yaşam (life, lifetime, living, Vita), hayat (existence, heart's-blood, life, living, race, Vita). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tejribe, synamak (test, undergo). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | знати з досвіду, зазнавати (suffer, sustain, undergo), пригода (adventure, affair, episode, incidental, occurrence, occurrent), переживати (emote, feel, pass through, prove, survive), досвідченість (conversance, proficiency, sophistication), досвід. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kinh nghiệm điều đã kinh qua. (various references) | |
Welsh | profiad, profi (approve, assay, prove, taste, try). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | taltal. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | consuetudine, consuetudinem, consuetudines, consuetudinis, consuetudo, eventus, eventus, eventum, experiar, experientia, experieris, experietur, experimento, experimentum, experior (experiri; expertus ), experiretur, experti, expertus, senserit, sensi, sensisset, sensit, sensu, sensum, sensus, sentiamus, sentiant, sentias, sentiebam, sentiens, sentientes, senties, sentiet, sentio, sentire, sentirent, sentiri, sentis, sentite, sentiunt, usu, usui, usum, usus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gebidan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 12, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai mh suschmatizesqe tw aiwni toutw alla metamorfousqe th anakainwsei tou nooV umwn eiV to dokimazein umaV ti to qelhma tou qeou to agaqon kai euareston kai teleion |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et nolite conformari huic saeculo sed reformamini in novitate sensus vestri ut probetis quae sit voluntas Dei bona et placens et perfecta |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ne sie na lengra swa þeos woruld, ac sie gehworfen þurh modes edniwung. Þonne magon ge cunnian and gecweðan hwæt Godes willa is--his god, gecwemlic and fulfremed willa. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And nyle ye be confourmyd to this world, but be ye reformed in newnesse of youre wit, that ye preue which is the wille of God, good, and wel plesynge, and parfit. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And fassion not youre selves lyke vnto this worlde: But be ye chaunged in youre shape by the renuynge of youre wittes that ye maye fele what thynge that good yt acceptable and perfaycte will of god is. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 12, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Ayaw kamo pagpahiuyon niining panahona sa kalibutan, kondili usba hinoon ninyo ang inyong kaugalingon pinaagi sa pagbag-o sa inyong salabutan, aron inyong masuta kon unsa ang maayo ug hinangponon ug hingpit nga kabobut-on sa Dios. |
| Croatian | Ne suoblièujte se ovomu svijetu, nego se preobrazujte obnavljanjem svoje pameti da mognete razabirati što je volja Božja, što li je dobro, Bogu milo, savršeno. |
| Danish | Og skikker eder ikke lige med denne Verden, men vorder forvandlede ved Sindets Fornyelse, så I må skønne, hvad der er Guds Villie, det gode og velbehagelige og fuldkomne. |
| Dutch | En wordt dezer wereld niet gelijkvormig; maar wordt veranderd door de vernieuwing uws gemoeds, opdat gij moogt beproeven, welke de goede, en welbehagelijke en volmaakte wil van God zij. |
| Finnish | Älkääkä mukautuko tämän maailmanajan mukaan, vaan muuttukaa mielenne uudistuksen kautta, tutkiaksenne, mikä on Jumalan tahto, mikä hyvää ja otollista ja täydellistä. |
| French | Ne vous conformez pas au siècle présent, mais soyez transformés par le renouvellement de l`intelligence, afin que vous discerniez quelle est la volonté de Dieu, ce qui est bon, agréable et parfait. |
| German | Und stellet euch nicht dieser Welt gleich, sondern verändert euch durch die Erneuerung eures Sinnes, auf daß ihr prüfen möget, welches da sei der gute, wohlgefällige und vollkommene Gotteswille. |
| Haitian Creole | Pa fè menm bagay ak sa moun ap fè sou latè. Men, kite Bondye chanje lavi nou nèt lè la fin chanje tout lide ki nan tèt nou. Lè sa a, n'a ka konprann sa Bondye vle, n'a konnen sa ki byen, sa ki fè l' plezi, sa ki bon nèt ale. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Janganlah ikuti norma-norma dunia ini. Biarkan Allah membuat pribadimu menjadi baru, supaya kalian berubah. Dengan demikian kalian sanggup mengetahui kemauan Allah--yaitu apa yang baik dan yang menyenangkan hati-Nya dan yang sempurna. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan janganlah kamu menurut teladan orang dunia ini, melainkan ubahkanlah rupamu dengan pembaharuan hatimu, supaya kamu dapat mengenal apa kehendak Allah, yaitu akan hal yang baik dan yang berkenan dan yang sempurna. |
| Latvian | Un nepiemçrojieties ðai pasaulei, bet pârvçrtieties, atjaunodamies savâ garâ, lai jûs saprastu, kâds ir Dieva prâts, kas labs un patîkams, un pilnîgs! |
| Maori | Kaua hoki to koutou ahua e rite ki to tenei ao: engari kia puta ke, ara kia whakahoutia o koutou hinengaro, kia whakamatautauria ai e koutou ta te Atua e pai ai, te mea e pai ana, e manakohia ana, e tino rite ana. |
| Norwegian | og skikk eder ikke like med denne verden, men bli forvandlet ved fornyelsen av eders sinn, så I kan prøve hvad som er Guds vilje: det gode og velbehagelige og fullkomne! |
| Portuguese | E não vos conformeis a este mundo, mas transformai-vos pela renovação da vossa mente, para que experimenteis qual seja a boa, agradável, e perfeita vontade de Deus. |
| Rumanian | Sq nu vq potriviyi chipului veacului acestuia, ci sq vq prefaceyi, prin knoirea minyii voastre, ca sq puteyi deosebi bine voia lui Dumnezeu: cea bunq, plqcutq wi desqvkrwitq. |
| Shuar | Chíkich shuar aya Jú nunkanmaya ana nuna Enentáimtusar wekainiawai. Tura átumka nu Túrawairap. Antsu Yus winia Enentáimmiarun yapajtiurat tusarum tsankatkatarum. Nu Túrakrumka Yus wakera nu nekaattarme. Ni wakeramusha yajauchichuiti antsu Imiá nekas pénkeraiti. |
| Swahili | Msiige mitindo ya ulimwengu huu, bali Mungu afanye mabadiliko ndani yenu kwa kuzigeuza fikira zenu. Hapo ndipo mtakapoweza kuyajua mapenzi ya Mungu, kutambua jambo lililo jema, linalompendeza na kamilifu. |
| Swedish | Och skicken eder icke efter denna tidsålders väsende, utan förvandlen eder genom edert sinnes förnyelse, så att I kunnen pröva vad som är Guds vilja, vad som är gott och välbehagligt och fullkomligt. |
| Uma | Neo' nituku' kehi tauna to uma mpo'incai Alata'ala. Pelele' Alata'ala mpobalii' kehi-ni hi kanabo'ui-na pekiri-ni. Apa' ane hewa toe-damo, ni'inca mpu'u-mi patuju Alata'ala hi rala katuwu' -ni. Ni'inca kalompe' patuju-na toe, to mpakagoe' nono-na, pai' to uma ria kakuraa' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "experience": experienced, experiences. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "experience": inexperience, postexperience, reexperience. (additional references) | |
Words containing "experience": inexperienced, inexperiences, reexperienced, reexperiences. (additional references) | |
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"Experience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: expeience, expeirience, experean, experence, experiance, expericence, experienc, experiense, experince, experrience, expierence, expierience, exprerience, exprience. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "experience" (pronounced ikspi"rēuns) |
| 10 | i k s p i" r ē u n s | inexperience. |
| 5 | -r ē u n s | invariance, variance. |
| 4 | -ē u n s | ambiance, ambience, audience, dalliance, deviance, disobedience, expedience, obedience, prescience, radiance, resilience, subservience, transience. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-n-p-r-x" | |
-3 letters: creepie, epicene. | |
-4 letters: expire, peerie, piecer, pierce, pincer, prince, recipe, repine. | |
-5 letters: creep, crepe, cripe, eerie, exine, nicer, niece, pence, piece, preen, price, repin, ripen, xenic, xeric. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-n-p-r-x" | |
+1 letter: experienced, experiences. | |
+2 letters: inexperience, preexistence, reexperience. | |
+3 letters: inexperienced, inexperiences, preexistences, reexperienced, reexperiences. | |
+4 letters: postexperience, reexperiencing. | |
+5 letters: hyperexcitement. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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