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Lesson
Definitions
- 1 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."
- 2 a task assigned for individual study wordnet
- 3 A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- 4 a unit of instruction wordnet
- 5 Something learned or to be learned.
"Nature has many lessons to teach to us."
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- 6 the significance of a story or event wordnet
- 7 Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
"I hope this accident taught you a lesson!"
- 8 punishment intended as a warning to others wordnet
- 9 A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
"Here endeth the first lesson."
- 10 A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
"She would give her a lesson for walking so late."
- 11 An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- 1 To instruct to teach. archaic
"And you, my sister—you, who lesson me on endurance, your cheek is pale, and your step languid; even with you, how much has life lost its interest!"
- 2 To give a lesson to; to teach.
"her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee Made her companion, and her lessoned In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead."
Etymology
From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.
From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.
From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.
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