What is the meaning of experience?

noun

• The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities.
  • usage: "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher"
• The content of direct observation or participation in an event.
  • usage: "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"
• An event as apprehended.
  • usage: "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"

verb

• Go or live through.
  • usage: "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"
  • synonyms: see, go through
• Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.
  • usage: "I know the feeling"; "have you ever known hunger"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"
  • synonyms: know, live
• Go through (mental or physical states or experiences. )
  • usage: "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
  • synonyms: receive, have, get
• Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.
  • usage: "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"
  • synonyms: feel
• Undergo.
  • usage: "The stocks had a fast run-up"
  • synonyms: have