<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.</li><li>the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.</li><li>the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time: to learn from experience; the range of human experience.</li><li>knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience.</li><li>Philosophy: the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) experienced, experiencing: to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea.</li><li>Synonyms: endure, brook, bear, suffer</li><li>to learn by experience.</li></ul>