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lesson

/ˈlɛs.ən/ verb C2
  1. To give a lesson to; to teach.

He/she/it lessons · Past lessoned · Past participle lessoned · -ing form lessoning

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Verb forms

Base form
lesson
He/she/it
lessons
Past
lessoned
Past participle
lessoned
-ing form
lessoning

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Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day’s lesson to Baloo.
The Jungle Book, p. 30 · B2
Now perhaps I may have knocked the day’s lesson out of his mind, and he will be alone in the jungle without the Master Words.”
The Jungle Book, p. 40 · B2
You’ll go right over to Barry’s, and you’ll go through that spruce grove, just for a lesson and a warning to you.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 165 · C1
But Ruby Gillis says she saw him writing something on her slate and when Prissy read it she blushed as red as a beet and giggled; and Ruby Gillis says she doesn’t believe it had anything to do with the lesson.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 108 · C1

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