/ɪkˈspɪəriəns/
Translation
The knowledge or skill you get from doing something or from things that happen to you.
Word origin
From Latin experientia, meaning a trial or test, so experience is what you gain by trying things.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- experientia
Grammar
Examples
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"Experience" means the skill you get from doing a thing many times.
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Here "experience" is something that happened to you and taught you.
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"Experiences" is the plural, meaning more than one event you lived through.
"Experience" is what you learn by doing something or by living through events. When it means skill built up over time, it has no plural, but when it means single events, you can say "experiences".
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