lesson meaning
EN[ˈlɛs(ə)n] [-ɛsən]US UK
WLesson
- A lesson is a structured period of time where learning is intended to occur. It involves one or more students (also called pupils or learners in some circumstances) being taught by a teacher or instructor.
- In a wider sense, a lesson is an insight gained by a learner into previously unfamiliar subject-matter. Such a lesson can be either planned or accidental, enjoyable or painful.
- Lessons can also be made entertaining. When the term education is combined with entertainment, the term edutainment is coined.
- NounPLlessonsSUF-son
- 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.
- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- VerbSGlessonsPRlessoningPT, PPlessoned
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Largely missing from the discussion on multiple concurrent sexual partnerships is how the lessons and experiences on sexuality at a young age, by traditions such as unyago, play out in adult life.
- You’re comparing piano lessons to the apocryphal vomitoriums into which decadent Romans supposedly regurgitated their dinner?
- I could see my students yawning, so I knew the lesson was boring them.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The right homework will reinforce and complement the lesson!
- Someone should carjack that pompous jerk and teach him a lesson!
- Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of lesson in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- en lessons
- en lessoned
- en lessoning
- en lessonings
- en lesson plan
Source: Wiktionary