experience
experience (ĭk-spîrʹē-əns) noun
1. The apprehension of an object, a thought, or an emotion through the senses or mind: a child's first experience of snow.
2. a. 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. b. The knowledge or skill so derived.
3. a. An event or a series of events participated in or lived through. b. The totality of such events in the past of an individual or a group.
verb, transitive
experienced, experiencing, experiences
To participate in personally; undergo: experience a great adventure; experienced loneliness.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin experientia, from experiēns, experient- present participle of experīrī, to try.]
expeʹriencer noun
Synonyms: experience, suffer, sustain, taste, undergo. 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.