learnling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who learns; pupil; student; apprentice
Example Sentences
- "So faulty was his knowledge that to this day impotent learnlings, who have drowned their little souls in printer's ink, find a cheap pleasure in holding up to ridicule the "ignorance," the "lack of system," the "fallacies and errors," of this man who was all heart; smiling contemptuously, too, these impotent learnlings, as if it were more honorable and more praiseworthy to be all head, no matter how diminutive and vapory."
- "Perchance in upland pastures there may stray Some learnling of the elder fold, to teach [...]"
Etymology
From learn + -ling. Compare West Frisian learling (“pupil”), German Lehrling (“apprentice”), Norwegian lærling (“trainee; apprentice”).