lesson
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛsn̩/
Audio (file) - Homophone: lessen
- Hyphenation: les‧son
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛsən
NounEdit
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.
- (Can we date this quote?) Sir Philip Sidney
- She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
- (Can we date this quote?) Sir Philip Sidney
- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
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TranslationsEdit
section of learning or teaching
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learning task assigned to a student
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something learned
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something that serves as a warning or encouragement
section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service
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VerbEdit
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.
- (Can we date this quote?) 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:
TranslationsEdit
to give a lesson; to teach
See alsoEdit
lesson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
lesson in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
