Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section II. Modes of Communication

539. Learning.

   NOUN:LEARNING; acquisition of -knowledge [See Knowledge], – skill [See Skill]; acquirement, attainment; mental cultivation, edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore; wide -, general- information; wide reading; self-instruction; study, grind [colloq.], reading, perusal; inquiry [See Inquiry].
  docility (willingness) [See Willingness]; aptitude [See Skill].
  APPRENTICESHIP, prenticeship [obs. or colloq.], pupilage, tutelage, novitiate.
  EXAMINATION, matriculation; responsions or smalls [Oxford Univ.], previous examination or little go [Cambridge Univ., Eng.], moderations or mods. [Oxford Univ.], final examination, finals, greats [Oxford Univ.], great go, tripos [both Cambridge Univ., Eng.].
  TRANSLATION, crib [student cant]; pony, trot, horse [all student slang, U. S.].
   VERB:LEARN; acquire -, gain -, receive -, take in -, drink in -, imbibe -, pick up -, gather -, get -, obtain -, collect -, glean- -knowledge, – information, – learning.
  acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself -master of, – acquainted with; grind [college slang], cram or cram up [colloq.], get up, coach up [colloq.]; learn by -heart, – rote.
  read, spell, peruse; con; run -, pore -, thumb- over; wade through, run through, plunge into, dip into; glance -, run the eye- -over, – through; turn over the leaves.
  STUDY; be studious &c. adj.; consume -, burn- -the midnight oil; mind one’s book, bury oneself in.
  go to -school, – college, – the university, – the ’varsity [colloq.]; serve an (or one’s) apprenticeship, serve one’s time; learn one’s trade; be informed [See Information]; be taught [See Teaching].
   ADJECTIVE:STUDIOUS; industrious [See Activity]; scholastic, scholarly, well read, widely read, well posted [colloq.], erudite, learned; full of -information, – learning, – lore.
  TEACHABLE; docile (willing) [See Willingness]; apt [See Skill].
   ADVERB:at one’s books; in statu pupillari [L.] (clergy) [See Clergy]; schoolmaster, dominie, usher [Brit.], pedagogue, abecedarian; schoolmistress, dame [rare], kindergartner, monitor, pupil teacher.
  GUIDE; expositor [See Interpreter]; guru [Hindu]; mentor (adviser) [See Advice]; pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist; example [See Prototype].
  PROFESSORSHIP (school) [See School].
  TUTELAGE (teaching) [See Teaching].
   ADJECTIVE:PEDAGOGIC or pedagogical, preceptorial, tutorial, professorial; scholastic [See Teaching].
   QUOTATION:Qui docet discit.