ex·pe·ri·ence
[ik-speer-ee-uh’ns]
noun, verb, -enced, -enc·ing.

noun
1. a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.

2. the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.

3. 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.

4. knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience.

5. Philosophy . the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, andremembered.

verb (used with object)
6. to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea.

7. to learn byexperience.

Idiom
8. experience religion, to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.