learning

noun

1 the importance of the library as a center of learning:

study, studying, education, schooling, tuition, teaching, academic work, instruction, training;

research, investigation;

British, informal swotting.

2 his second book displayed the astonishing range of his learning:

scholarship, knowledge, education, erudition, culture, intellect, academic attainment, acquirements, enlightenment, illumination, edification, book learning, insight, information, understanding, sageness, wisdom, sophistication;

pedantry;

letters.

▷antonyms ignorance.