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# experience

«experience» in Mova's school dictionary: **knowledge or skill you get by doing or seeing things over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#m1)

2) An experience is something that happens to you, especially something that leaves a strong feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#m2)

3) To experience something is to have it happen to you or to feel it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#x1)
- Visiting the zoo was a great experience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#x2)
- She has a lot of experience with dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#x3)
- Write about an experience that made you proud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#x4)
- Many animals experience fear during storms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#x5)
- Camping in the rain was a new experience for us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#x6)
- He gained experience by helping at the shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#x7)
- He had had experience with such birds before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/13/)
- [People still love stories written by people, with real experiences behind them, though some writers worry about fewer jobs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/10/)
- ["Person experiencing homelessness" (official US) means a homeless person.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/12/)
- ["A learning experience" often means an expensive failure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/14/)
- [Autistic people experience the world differently and may find loud noise or sudden changes hard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «experience» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/experience/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.