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Noun: learner  lur-nu(r)
  1. Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
    "He was a quick learner of new languages";
    - scholar, assimilator, student
     
  2. Someone who works for an expert in order to learn a trade
    "He started as a learner in the carpenter's workshop";
    - apprentice, prentice [archaic]

Derived forms: learners

Type of: actor, beginner, doer, initiate, novice, rookie [informal], tiro, tyro, worker

Encyclopedia: Learner, David