Noun: learning
| Singular | learning |
| Plural | learnings |
Sample Sentences
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The department head was also a scholar of great learning.
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“We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.” [2007 April 5, Stuart Elliott, “Online Experiment for Print Magazine”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like learning
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung. See: Old English Nouns '
leornung'.