Definition of experience
- n. - Trial, as a test or experiment.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.