Lesson

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1) A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
 * 2) Something learned or to be learned.
 * Nature has many lessons to teach to us.
 * I hope this accident taught you a lesson!
 * 1) Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
 * The accident was a good lesson to me.
 * 1) A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.

Synonyms

 * lection
 * lection

Derived terms

 * object lesson
 * private lessons

Related terms

 * lectern
 * lection
 * lecture

Verb

 * 1) To give a lesson to; to teach.
 * 2) * 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.

Adjectives for Lesson
crowning; salutary; rude; strategical; humiliating; valuable; distasteful; sacred; deathless; wholesome; exemplary; object; copious; pioneer; curious; striking; stern; impressive; instructive; ethical; important; nobler; outstanding; painful; baneful; tremendous; fruitful; needful; hard; silent.

Verbs for Lesson
assign—; deliver—; experience—; expound '—; imply—; inculcate—; instill—; memorize—; preach—; project—; rebel at—; recite—; spice—; yield—; —penetrates; — rebukes; —reprimands; —sinks in.

Thesaurus
admonish, admonishment, admonition, alarm, assignment, call down, castigation, caution, caveat, chalk talk, chastening, chastisement, chide, chiding, class, correction, deterrent, deterrent example, discouragement, discourse, disquisition, drill, example, exemplar, exercise, exposition, final notice, final warning, guide, harangue, hint, homework, homily, instruction, lecture, lecture-demonstration, maxim, message, model, monition, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, notice, notification, object lesson, objurgation, paragon, practice, preachment, precept, punishment, rating, reading, rebuke, recital, recitation, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, schooling, scolding, sermon, session, set task, skull session, spanking, study, talk, task, teaching, threat, tick off, tip-off, tutoring, ultimatum, upbraiding, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece

Etymology
From leçon:, from  lectio:, from lego:.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: ikasgai
 * Breton:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 課業, 课业,  ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Lehrstunde, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שיעור
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: lection
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 学課,   ,  レッスン
 * Jèrriais: léçon


 * Korean: 수업
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Luxembourgish: Stonn, Lektioun
 * Norwegian: lekse, lærepenge, undervisningstime
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: lecţie
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: leasan
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: పాఠం
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: lärnod
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: אויפֿגאַבע, לעקציע
 * Yiddish: אויפֿגאַבע, לעקציע


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: läksy, kotitehtävä,
 * Hebrew: שיעורים
 * Hindi:
 * Irish:


 * Kurdish:
 * Persian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: leasan
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పాఠం


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: leçon
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מוסר השכל, לקח
 * Irish:


 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: documentum
 * Luxembourgish: Léier
 * Portuguese: lição
 * Scottish Gaelic: leasan
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: lärnod


 * Armenian:
 * Basque: eskarmentu
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: leçon
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:


 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: documentum
 * Luxembourgish: Léier
 * Portuguese: lição
 * Scottish Gaelic: leasan
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: päivän Sana
 * Irish:


 * Swahili:


 * Old Provençal:
 * : lección

Anagrams

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