Definitions for book-learning

book-learning book learning

Book-Learning is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 1176 anagrams from letters in book-learning (-abegiklnnoor).

Definitions for book-learning

noun

  1. knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  2. formal education:

Origin of book-learning

First recorded in 1580-90

Examples for book-learning

Sports should be as carefully looked to in early education as book-learning.

Life in China is not wholly made up of book-learning and commerce.

There he plied his tasks so diligently that he excelled all in book-learning.

But, he added, cultivation of the heart was not gained by book-learning.

Certainly the old contempt for "book-learning" is dying out.

It was not the love of book-learning, still less the love of games, which drew him there.

None of us was overburdened with book-learning or technical training, myself least of all.

Especially was he contemptuous of the book-learning that gave the authorities their power.

They knew that book-learning often came in useful at a pinch, in spite of what their neighbours said.

But Beach had no fondness for book-learning or fine clothes.

Word Value for book-learning
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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