experience
What you know or can do because you have done something before.
Practical knowledge, skill, or understanding gained through direct participation in events or activities.
Something that happens to you and that you remember.
An event, activity, or situation that someone lives through or participates in, often affecting them emotionally or mentally.
To have something happen to you or to feel something.
To encounter or live through an event, situation, or condition, especially one that affects you directly.
- Base: experience
- Plural: experience, experiences
- Base: experience
- 3rd Person Singular: experiences
- Present Participle: experiencing
- Past: experienced
a learning experience
1Event that teaches something valuable
An event that helps you learn something new, usually from mistakes or problems.
- The failure was a learning experience for the whole team.
- Living abroad was a real learning experience for me.
gain experience
1Get more skill through practice
To get more knowledge or skill by doing things over time.
- You will gain valuable experience in this internship.
- She gained a lot of experience working on the project.
learn from experience
1Gain knowledge by living through events
To understand something better after it has happened to you.
- I learned from experience that it's better to double-check your work.
- You will learn from experience how to handle difficult customers.
life-changing experience
1Event that changes someone's life significantly
Something that happens and changes your life in an important way.
- Meeting her was a life-changing experience.
- Traveling alone was a life-changing experience for him.
personal experience
1Something you went through yourself
Something that happened to you personally, not to someone else.
- Speaking from personal experience, I can say this method works well.
- Her advice comes from personal experience with the problem.