mindmap root((知识)) knowledge applies to facts or ideas acquired by study, investigation, observation, or experience: rich in the ~ gained from life. learning applies to knowledge acquired especially through formal, often advanced, schooling and close application: a book that is evidence of the author's vast ~. erudition strongly implies the acquiring or possession of profound, recondite, or bookish learning: an ~ unusual even for a classicist. scholarship implies the possession of learning characteristic of the advanced scholar in a specialized field of study or investigation: a work of first-rate literary ~.