experience
Speech parts
1. experience - Noun
2. experience - Verb
Meaning
Trial, as a test or experiment.
The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.
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The best teacher is experience. It charges a high price, but explains things well!
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Experience is the greatest teacher.
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
We start as fools and become wise through experience.