English | German | Russian | Czech
A1

experience English

Meaning experience meaning

What does experience mean?
Definitions in simple English

experience

An experience is an event that happens to you or that you are a part of. The spelling bee was a horrible experience. Experience is the amount of time you have been doing something (especially, a job). He has ten years of experience in law.

experience

If I experience something, it happens to me or I am involved in it. We will never experience poverty because we are so rich.

experience

the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities a man of experience experience is the best teacher the content of direct observation or participation in an event he had a religious experience he recalled the experience vividly an event as apprehended a surprising experience that painful experience certainly got our attention (= see, go through) go or live through We had many trials to go through he saw action in Viet Nam (= know, live) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations 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 (= receive, have, get) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) get an idea experience vertigo get nauseous receive injuries have a feeling (= feel) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind She felt resentful He felt regret (= have) undergo The stocks had a fast run-up

Synonyms experience synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as experience?

Topics experience topics

What do people use experience to talk about?

Conjugation experience conjugation

How do you conjugate experience?

experience · verb

Examples experience examples

How do I use experience in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The trouble is that she lacks experience.
I have no experience.
What's important is the experience.
Experience brings wisdom.
He has ample experience.
Does she have experience?
Does he have experience?
I don't want my children to experience war.
I don't want my children to experience poverty.
It was very rewarding experience for Tom.
They asked Tom about his working experience. He said that he had none.
It was a very good experience for me.
Do you have professional experience?
Do you have work experience?
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
You must make allowance for his lack of experience.
The salary is fixed according to age and experience.
On the one hand we suffered a heavy loss, but on the other hand we learned a great deal from the experience.
In no country other than England, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
Most people want to experience happiness.
Please write about your real experience.
It was a very good experience for him.
It was the best experience in all my life.
It's a wholly new experience for me.
You have knowledge and experience as well.
Diligence may compensate for lack of experience.
Pay will be based on experience and educational background.
We learn by experience.
That might be the most painful experience in my life.
The story is based on his own experience.

Movie subtitles

I'm thinking if you had 20 years more experience, what a difference that would make for T.J.
He had a really bad experience last St. Patrick's Day.
On behalf of St Judas, my apologies for this harrowing experience.
Well, is a physical existence worthwhile without an ability to experience emotion?
It's been my experience that very few wives are aware of what their husbands play at when they are away.
It's great experience.
Because I know you don't have any experience being in a gay relationship, and I would never ask you to do anything you're not comfortable with.
You having a fun summer experience with us?
I have a lot of experience is that area.
I know from experience that you're the one that does the heartbreaking.
The friend rushes upward, high into the mountains, to savor his overwhelming experience.
And after all, is a little experience. such a bad thing for a boy?
You needn't think you can persuade me not to examine the most wonderful find of my whole experience out here.
Apparently it was the horror of that experience that overpowered this phenomenal mind, which for so long had straddled the fine line between genius and madness, and literally deranged it.
No surprise, because the Americans had a huge advance because they had a lot of experience with microwave techniques, which they had developed during the war.
After 3,000 years, who knew I would see wonders that I have as yet to experience?
I've got the advantage, way more experience in underwater combat.
Your experience was insufficient to deal with him alone.
Have you any experience in kidnapping?
Unless one had seen him on the stage in his native England, or in New York, the unique and commanding texture of his vocal delivery would be a new experience for movie-goers at that time.
All in all, she did not find working with Claude to be an enjoyable experience.
I found out from experience to keep my cast and cameras with me.
She has lived through an experience no other woman ever dreamed of. And she was saved from the very grasp of Kong by her future husband.
You see. If you'd let me go to the convention, I wouldn't have gone through this horrible experience.
When you're strong enough, we'll go away and forget this horrible experience.
Well, science is one thing and experience is another.
With your experience as a.
Otherwise, Korea will experience much more sanctions.
THE NEAR-DEATH-EXPERIENCE CHAIR!
Which will produce fear, which seems to be the final ingredient in producing a full near-death experience.
You've had more experience.
Gee, I had a funny experience today.
Have you had any experience?
A playboy who hasn't had a day's banking experience in his life.
I've had experience.
As I fell asleep that night in the empty house. I formed an opinion on theft and justice which. is rather a paradox and yet, 40 years of experience. haven't altered it.
I don't know what I've found from experience.
You'll be stronger for this experience.

News and current affairs

If the advanced-country scenario is right, many developing countries will lose out and experience sharply diminished growth.
Recent IMF experience suggests that, through appropriate coordination, private funds could be mobilized for big private-public partnership projects linking demand expansion with infrastructure investment.
The world's advice givers might try to keep this in mind when offering to help leaders of distant countries that are grappling with problems with which the adviser has little or no first-hand experience.
Neither the Soviet experience in Afghanistan in the 1980's nor NATO's today vindicates the claim that troop numbers are what matter most on the modern battlefield.
But, based on Europe's experience, such policies are precisely the wrong way to address global warming.
For our intention is to attract large Western energy companies with experience in this field as strategic investors.
For reasons that are not yet fully understood, this partnership breaks down when corals experience unusually high temperatures.
But many would like to see all this while watching TV rather than experience it in real life.
But time is short, and few of new DPJ lawmakers possess the legislative experience and budgetary expertise to make that happen.
Countries that did not experience recent bank meltdowns, such as Canada, Australia, China, Brazil, and India, are unenthusiastic.
Unless we are convinced of the Dreamliner's ability to avoid stall speed, it makes no sense to talk about all the ways in which it will enhance the travel experience for millions of people around the world.
The two men differ in temperament as well as experience.
Our support was, in the words of Samuel Johnson, a triumph of hope over experience.
The calamitous US military experience in Iraq has left it strategically diminished.
In economic-development circles, experience and common sense suggest that progress, accountability, and hard work start with and depend on women.
This European experience is now being widely studied in Latin America.
All estimates of the possible impact of global warming suggest that a large part of the continent will become drier, and that the continent as a whole will experience greater climatic variability.
The experience of other war crimes tribunals suggests that questions about political bias may take years to overcome.
And yet there are good reasons to believe that it is just a matter of time before Africa and its peoples experience the ill effects of the global crisis.
The problem is that North Korea has no experience with collective leadership.
I write this in the 88th year of my life, but not because I have learned from experience.
The team was also subjected to shameless verbal bullying by Sri Lankan officials (a deeply unpleasant experience to which I, too, have been subjected).
Adaptation could allow for higher carbon emissions in another way: reducing the damage and harm that we experience from global warming, giving us more time to implement alternatives to reliance on fossil fuels.
But the most relevant Latin American experience with debt buybacks is a more recent and far less studied case: Ecuador in 2008.

Are you looking for...?