lesson
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlɛsn̩/
lesson (plural lessons)
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- In our school a typical working week consists of around twenty lessons and ten hours of related laboratory work.
- A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- Something learned or to be learned.
- Nature has many lessons to teach to us.
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
- I hope this accident taught you a lesson!
- The accident was a good lesson to me.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
- Here endeth the first lesson.
- A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
- She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- French: leçon
- German: Lehrstunde, Stunde, Lektion, Unterricht
- Italian: lezione
- Portuguese: lição
- Russian: уро́к
- Spanish: lección
- French: devoirs
- German: Schularbeit, Hausaufgabe
- Portuguese: lição, tarefa
- Russian: уро́к
lesson (lessons, present participle lessoning; past and past participle lessoned)
- To give a lesson to; to teach.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
- her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee / Made her companion, and her lessoned / In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
- To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, / Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
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