lesson
/ˈlɛs.ən/ noun A1- 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.
- An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
Plural lessons
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I’ll learn my lessons at home and I’ll be as good as I can be and hold my tongue all the time if it’s possible at all.
“I’m willing to own up that I made a mistake,” she concluded candidly, “but I’ve learned a lesson.
“I took the amethyst brooch,” said Anne, as if repeating a lesson she had learned.
As for cooking, I mean to begin giving you lessons in that some of these days.
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