SkyfireDict

experience   (TTS Sound)

The noun experience has 3 senses

• experience -- (the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher")


• experience -- (the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly")


• experience -- (an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention")

The verb experience has 5 senses

• experience, see, go through -- (go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam")


• know, experience, live -- (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")


• experience, receive, have, get -- (go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling")


• feel, experience -- (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret")


• have, experience -- (undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up")