experience
1. the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities (Freq. 52)
- a man of experience
- experience is the best teacher
• Ant:
inexperience
• Derivationally related forms:
experiential, experient
• Hypernyms:
education
• Hyponyms:
familiarization, familiarisation, woodcraft
2. the content of direct observation or participation in an event (Freq. 48)
- he had a religious experience
- he recalled the experience vividly
• Derivationally related forms:
experiential
• Hypernyms:
content, cognitive content, mental object
• Hyponyms:
world, reality, life, living, reliving,
re-experiencing, reminder
3. an event as apprehended (Freq. 28)
- a surprising experience
- that painful experience certainly got our attention
• Hypernyms:
happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
• Hyponyms:
appalling, augury, sign, foretoken, preindication,
flash, flashing, good time, blast, loss, near-death experience,
near-death experience, out-of-body experience, taste, time, trip,
head trip, vision
• Part Meronyms:
high point
1. go or live through (Freq. 18)
- We had many trials to go through
- he saw action in Viet Nam
• Syn:
see, go through
• Hypernyms:
undergo
• Hyponyms:
know, live, suffer, endure, meet,
feel, enjoy, witness, find, see, come
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations (Freq. 10)
- 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
• Syn:
know, live
• Derivationally related forms:
knowable (for: know)
• Hypernyms:
see, go through
• Hyponyms:
taste, relive, live over
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. go through (mental or physical states or experiences) (Freq. 8)
- get an idea
- experience vertigo
- get nauseous
- receive injuries
- have a feeling
• Syn:
receive, have, get
• Hypernyms:
undergo
• Hyponyms:
suffer, sustain, have, get, take, horripilate
• Entailment:
perceive, comprehend
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind (Freq. 5)
- She felt resentful
- He felt regret
• Syn:
feel
• See Also:
feel for (for: feel)
• Derivationally related forms:
feelings (for: feel), feeling (for: feel)
• Hyponyms:
incline, recapture, pride, plume, congratulate,
smolder, smoulder, harbor, harbour, hold, entertain,
nurse, cool off, anger, see red, chafe, suffer,
fume, repent, regret, rue, sadden, rejoice,
joy, sympathize, sympathise, take pride, pride oneself, burn,
die, fly high, glow, beam, radiate, shine
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something Adjective/Noun (for: feel)
- Something ----s Adjective/Noun (for: feel)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: feel)
5. undergo
- The stocks had a fast run-up
• Syn:
have
• Hypernyms:
change
• Hyponyms:
meet, encounter, receive
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
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