experience
part of speech
noun (experience, experiences; uncountable for knowledge); verb (experience, experiences, experienced, experiencing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Experience is knowledge or skill you get by doing or seeing things over time. tree →
2) An experience is something that happens to you, especially something that leaves a strong feeling. tree →
3) To experience something is to have it happen to you or to feel it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, we learn from experience and experiments; in writing lessons, children write about a personal experience. In everyday life, job adverts ask for experience. Phrases: «from experience», «a good experience», «an amazing experience», «learn by experience», «life experience».
examples
- I know from experience that the bus is often late. tree →
- Visiting the zoo was a great experience. tree →
- She has a lot of experience with dogs. tree →
- Write about an experience that made you proud. tree →
- Many animals experience fear during storms. tree →
- Camping in the rain was a new experience for us. tree →
- He gained experience by helping at the shop. tree →
- He had had experience with such birds before. tree →
note
Uncountable when it means knowledge («a lot of experience», «no experience»), countable when it means an event («two strange experiences»). Adjective: «experienced» (skilled). Not to be confused with «experiment» (a scientific test). Not a number word.
In the corpora
- Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but so do experience and wisdom.
- People still love stories written by people, with real experiences behind them, though some writers worry about fewer jobs.
- "Person experiencing homelessness" (official US) means a homeless person.
- "A learning experience" often means an expensive failure.
- Autistic people experience the world differently and may find loud noise or sudden changes hard.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «experience» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.