learnedlearn‧ed /ˈlɜːnɪd $ ˈlɜːr-/ adjective formal 
a learned professor2learned books/works etc books etc that are written by people who have a lot of knowledge: learned works on natural history—learnedly adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- It's true that art critics aren't as learned as art-historians in these matters.
- The old professor was obviously a very learned man.
Longman Language Activatorintelligent and well-educated
someone who is educated is intelligent and knows a lot because they have had a good education, have read a lot etc: · You're smart, you're educated, you shouldn't have any trouble finding a job.· In general, children of educated parents tend to get better grades.well educated: · The boy came from a good home, was well educated and had every advantage.highly educated: · Nadia is a highly-educated, very motivated individual who will go far.
an intelligent, well-educated person who spends a lot of their time thinking about, writing about, and discussing ideas, literature etc: · It's an organization of writers, artists and intellectuals, who come together to discuss their ideas.· The restaurant was once the meeting place for leading French left-wing intellectuals such as Sartre and de Beauvoir.
formal a learned person has read many books and knows a lot about many things, and is greatly respected because of their knowledge: · The old professor was obviously a very learned man.· It's true that art critics aren't as learned as art-historians in these matters.
someone who is academic is very good at studying and does well at school, university etc: · I wasn't very academic, and l left school at sixteen.· If you're academic, you can take some of your exams a year or two early.· Teachers must provide challenging activities for their more academic pupils.
the most intelligent person or people in a country, organization etc: the brains: · You'd better ask Toby. He's the brains around here.best brains: · Many of Britain's best brains have left the country to go and work in America.
formal the most intelligent and highly educated people in a society such as the writers, thinkers, and artists: · The demonstrators belong to the middle classes and the intelligentsia, which have suffered most as a result of the government's economic policies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He learned the hard way about the harsh reality of the boxing world. Make sure you put the baby’s diaper on before you start feeding her. I learned this lesson the hard way.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
He learned the hard way about the harsh reality of the boxing world. Make sure you put the baby’s diaper on before you start feeding her. I learned this lesson the hard way.· Such learned behaviour is heavily ingrained in many of us.· This learned behaviour, or social inheritance, of any society is called its culture.· By contrast, learned behaviour requires experience and practice.· However, the range and complexity of learned behaviour in humans is far greater than in any other species.
· Does my right hon. and learned Friend think that such communication would have contributed to avoiding the accident?· The report that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State published yesterday is extremely important.· Mr. Bowis My right hon. and learned Friend will recall the bomb explosion a month ago on the track in my constituency.· My right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General will be dealing with the question of contempt.· The hon. Gentleman's hon. and learned Friend has as much right to express his views as the hon. Gentleman had.· Here I reflect very much the comments of my right hon. and learned Friend.· What my noble and learned friends have said will, however, enable me to express myself quite shortly.
· Mr. Clark I am grateful for what the hon. and learned Gentleman has said.· I refer the hon. and learned Gentleman to the reply that I gave a few moments ago.· The hon. and learned Gentleman must not make a speech that he might make if I were to call him.· I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so.· Also, when does the right hon. and learned Gentleman hope to fill the post of Director of Public Prosecutions?· Mr. Lilley I can tell the House why the hon. and learned Gentleman is wrong.
· She laid aside all the incomprehensible extracts from learned journals and boiled herself an egg.· They appeared to be pages of an off-print of an article in a learned journal.
· The learned judge held not, for the reason that no one is entitled to profit from his own wrong.· For these reasons, I would allow the appeal with costs, and restore the order of the learned judge.
· Nevertheless, he was certainly a learned man.· The learned men of that school were known as doctors plus epithets: the Angelic Doctor, the Sublime Doctor and so forth.
· The hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West is not on trial.· I have acknowledged the great damage done to the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West.· I am dealing with the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East.· That is precisely what the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East described a year ago.· There has been some administrative devolution, to which the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East referred.· The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East talked about our record.· The right hon. and learned Member for Warley, West first discussed the causes of crime.
· In contrast to Hocazade, Civizade came from a very favourable background from the point of view of the learned profession.· Besides muderrises and kadis, one other group within the learned profession deserves brief mention, namely the muftis.
· He held many offices in learned societies.· Other members include industrial concerns, private companies, hospitals, learned societies and organisations in the museums, arts and media.· She had come rather out of her way and now walked back along a square where a learned society had its premises.· When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society.
WORD FAMILYnounlearnerlearningunlearnadjectivelearnedverblearnadverblearnedly
1a learned person has a lot of knowledge because they have read and studied a lot: a learned professor2learned books/works etc books etc that are written by people who have a lot of knowledge: learned works on natural history—learnedly adverb