Dictionary entry details
• EXPERIENCE (noun)
Meaning:
The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context examples:
a man of experience / experience is the best teacher
Hypernyms ("experience" is a kind of...):
education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experience"):
familiarisation; familiarization (the experience of becoming familiar with something)
woodcraft (skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping))
Antonym:
inexperience (lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience)
Meaning:
The content of direct observation or participation in an event
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context examples:
he had a religious experience / he recalled the experience vividly
Hypernyms ("experience" is a kind of...):
cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experience"):
reality; world (all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you)
life; living (the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities)
re-experiencing; reliving (a recurrence of a prior experience)
reminder (an experience that causes you to remember something)
Meaning:
An event as apprehended
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context examples:
a surprising experience / that painful experience certainly got our attention
Hypernyms ("experience" is a kind of...):
happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)
Meronyms (parts of "experience"):
high point (the most enjoyable part of a given experience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experience"):
out-of-body experience (the dissociative experience of observing yourself from an external perspective as though your mind or soul had left and was observing your body)
taste (a brief experience of something)
time (a person's experience on a particular occasion)
head trip; trip (an exciting or stimulating experience)
vision (a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance)
ordeal (a severe or trying experience)
near-death experience (the experience of being close to death but surviving)
loss (the experience of losing a loved one)
blast; good time (a highly pleasurable or exciting experience)
flash; flashing (a short vivid experience)
augury; foretoken; preindication; sign (an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come)
appalling (an experience that appalls)
• EXPERIENCE (verb)
Meaning:
Go or live through
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
experience; go through; undergo; see
Context examples:
We had many trials to go through / he saw action in Viet Nam
Hypernyms (to "experience" is one way to...):
participate; take part (share in something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "experience"):
experience; know; live (have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations)
endure; suffer (undergo or be subjected to)
meet; suffer (undergo or suffer)
feel (undergo passive experience of:)
enjoy (have for one's benefit)
find; see; witness (perceive or be contemporaneous with)
come (experience orgasm)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
experience; know; live
Context examples:
I know the feeling! / have you ever known hunger? / I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict / The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare / I lived through two divorces
Hypernyms (to "experience" is one way to...):
experience; go through; see; undergo (go or live through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "experience"):
taste (experience briefly)
live over; relive (experience again, often in the imagination)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
undergo; have; experience; receive; get
Context examples:
get an idea / experience vertigo / get nauseous / undergo a strange sensation / The chemical undergoes a sudden change / The fluid undergoes shear / receive injuries / have a feeling
"Experience" entails doing...:
comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "experience"):
horripilate (have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps)
take (experience or feel or submit to)
get; have; suffer; sustain (undergo (as of injuries and illnesses))
labor; labour (undergo the efforts of childbirth)
respire (undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Undergo an emotional sensation
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
feel; experience
Context examples:
She felt resentful / He felt regret
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "experience"):
joy; rejoice (feel happiness or joy)
sympathise; sympathize (share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of)
pride oneself; take pride (feel pride of)
burn (feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion)
die (feel indifferent towards)
fly high (be elated)
beam; glow; radiate; shine (experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion)
glow (be exuberant or high-spirited)
sadden (come to feel sad)
regret; repent; rue (feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about)
fume (be mad, angry, or furious)
recapture (experience anew)
congratulate; plume; pride (be proud of)
smolder; smoulder (have strong suppressed feelings)
entertain; harbor; harbour; hold; nurse (maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings))
cool off (feel less enamoured of something or somebody)
anger; see red (become angry)
chafe (feel extreme irritation or anger)
suffer (endure (emotional pain))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Undergo
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
experience; have
Context example:
The stocks had a fast run-up
Hypernyms (to "experience" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "experience"):
encounter; meet; receive (experience as a reaction)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
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