lesson
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Etymology [edit]
From Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”).
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Noun [edit]
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.
- I hope this accident taught you a lesson!
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
- The accident was a good lesson to me.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
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Translations [edit]
a section of learning or teaching
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a learning task assigned to a student
something learned
something that serves as a warning or encouragement
a section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service
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Verb [edit]
lesson (third-person singular simple present lessons, present participle lessoning, simple 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.
- Byron
- 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:
See also [edit]
Lesson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
lesson in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
