1. • noun - the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
   • noun - the content of direct observation or participation in an event
   • noun - an event as apprehended
   • verb - go or live through
   • verb - have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
   • verb - go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
   • verb - undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
   • verb - undergo
2. • The apprehension of an object, a thought, or an emotion through the senses or mind: a child’s first experience of snow.
   • Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill: a lesson taught by experience; a carpenter with experience in wall and roof repair.
   • The knowledge or skill so derived.
   • An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
   • The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to encounter or partake of personally”: experience happiness; suffer a loss; sustained an injury; tasted freedom; has undergone a religious conversion.

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