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learning

/ˈlɝnɪŋ/ noun B2
  1. An act in which something is learned. (uncountable)
  2. Accumulated knowledge. (uncountable) · The department head was also a scholar of great learning.
  3. Something that has been learned. (countable)

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I wanted to go, but Marilla said I’d be better at home learning my lessons and so would Jane.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 231 · C1
And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.
The Jungle Book, p. 14 · B2
While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: “Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 22 · B2
When he was not learning he sat out in the sun and slept, and ate and went to sleep again.
The Jungle Book, p. 13 · B2

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