#️⃣#Experience /ɪkˈspɪəriəns $ -ˈspɪr-/ #noun
1️⃣KNOWLEDGE/SKILL [uncountable] ➡️ knowledge or skill that you gain from doing a job or activity, or the process of doing this
🔘experience of/in/with
💥You’ve got a lot of experience of lecturing.
💥my experience in many areas of the music business
💥He had no previous experience of managing a farm.
💥The advice in the booklet reflects the practical experience we have gained (=experience gained by actually doing something, rather than knowledge from books etc).
💥I had some experience in fashion design.
💥She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience.
💥I have first-hand experience (=experience gained by doing something myself) of running a school.
🔘gain/get experience
💥The programme enables pupils to gain some experience of the world of work.
2️⃣KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE [uncountable] ➡️ knowledge that you gain about life and the world by being in different situations and meeting different people, or the process of gaining this
🔘in sb’s experience
💥In his experience, women did not like getting their feet wet and muddy.
🔘know/learn/speak from experience
💥Being a parent isn’t easy, as I know from experience.
💥All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience.
💥I speak from bitter experience (=having learnt something because something unpleasant happened).
🔘personal/previous/past experience
💥From personal experience, she knew and understood the problems of drugs addiction.
🔘experience shows/suggests that
💥Beth’s experience suggests that people don’t really change deep down.
3️⃣SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS [countable] ➡️ something that happens to you or something you do, especially when this has an effect on what you feel or think:
💥childhood experiences
🔘experience of/with
💥This was my first experience of living with other people.
🔘experience for
💥Failing an exam was a new experience for me.
💥I had a similar experience last year.
💥The two children in this story have been through a lot of bad experiences.
💥Parachuting is quite an experience.
🔘memorable/unforgettable experience
💥This romantic evening cruise is a memorable experience.
4️⃣the black/female/Russian etc experience ➡️ events or knowledge shared by the members of a particular society or group of people:
💥No writer expresses the black experience with such passion as Toni Morisson.
5️⃣work experience #British_English ➡️ a system in which a student can work for a company in order to learn about a job, or the period during which a student does this:
💥Ella is about to do work experience with a clothing manufacturer.
🔘on work experience
💥students on work experience
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1️⃣KNOWLEDGE/SKILL [uncountable] ➡️ knowledge or skill that you gain from doing a job or activity, or the process of doing this
🔘experience of/in/with
💥You’ve got a lot of experience of lecturing.
💥my experience in many areas of the music business
💥He had no previous experience of managing a farm.
💥The advice in the booklet reflects the practical experience we have gained (=experience gained by actually doing something, rather than knowledge from books etc).
💥I had some experience in fashion design.
💥She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience.
💥I have first-hand experience (=experience gained by doing something myself) of running a school.
🔘gain/get experience
💥The programme enables pupils to gain some experience of the world of work.
2️⃣KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE [uncountable] ➡️ knowledge that you gain about life and the world by being in different situations and meeting different people, or the process of gaining this
🔘in sb’s experience
💥In his experience, women did not like getting their feet wet and muddy.
🔘know/learn/speak from experience
💥Being a parent isn’t easy, as I know from experience.
💥All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience.
💥I speak from bitter experience (=having learnt something because something unpleasant happened).
🔘personal/previous/past experience
💥From personal experience, she knew and understood the problems of drugs addiction.
🔘experience shows/suggests that
💥Beth’s experience suggests that people don’t really change deep down.
3️⃣SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS [countable] ➡️ something that happens to you or something you do, especially when this has an effect on what you feel or think:
💥childhood experiences
🔘experience of/with
💥This was my first experience of living with other people.
🔘experience for
💥Failing an exam was a new experience for me.
💥I had a similar experience last year.
💥The two children in this story have been through a lot of bad experiences.
💥Parachuting is quite an experience.
🔘memorable/unforgettable experience
💥This romantic evening cruise is a memorable experience.
4️⃣the black/female/Russian etc experience ➡️ events or knowledge shared by the members of a particular society or group of people:
💥No writer expresses the black experience with such passion as Toni Morisson.
5️⃣work experience #British_English ➡️ a system in which a student can work for a company in order to learn about a job, or the period during which a student does this:
💥Ella is about to do work experience with a clothing manufacturer.
🔘on work experience
💥students on work experience
#Vocabulary
#Essential_English_words
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