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English

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-lesson.ogg



Noun

  1. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
  2. * In our school a typical working week consists of around twenty lessons and ten hours of related laboratory work.
  3. A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
  4. Something learned or to be learned.
  5. * The nature has many lessons to teach to us.
  6. * I hope this accident thought you a lesson!
  7. Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
  8. * The accident was a good lesson to me.
  9. A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.


Translations

  • Arabic: (dars)
  • Chinese: 课业 (kèyè)
  • Dutch:
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|leciono|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish: ,
  • French: {{t+|fr|leçon|f}}
  • German: Lehrstunde
  • Greek: {{t+|el|μάθημα|n|tr=máthima|sc=Grek}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|ceacht|m|xs=Irish}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|lezione|f}}
  • Japanese: 授業 (じゅぎょう, jugyō)
  • Jèrriais: léçon
  • Korean: 수업 (sueop)
  • Kurdish: {{t+|ku|ده‌رس|sc=KUchar}}
  • Norwegian: lekse, lærepenge, undervisningstime
  • Portuguese: {{t-|pt|licão|f}}
  • Romanian: lecţie
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|урок|m|tr=urók|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|lección|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|lektion|c}}
  • Turkish:
  • Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|виклад|m|tr=wýklad|sc=Cyrl|xs=Ukrainian}}
  • Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|bài|xs=Vietnamese}}
  • Welsh: gwers
  • Yiddish: אויפֿגאַבע (oyfgabe) , לעקציע (lektsye)
  • Kurdish:
  • Finnish:
  • Greek: {{t+|el|δίδαγμα|n|tr=dídaghma|sc=Grek}}
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|ceacht|m|xs=Irish}}
  • Kurdish:
  • Kurdish:
  • Turkish:
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|ceacht|m|xs=Irish}}

Derived terms


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lesson \Les"son\ (l[e^]s"s'n), n. [OE. lessoun, F. le[,c]on
lesson, reading, fr. L. lectio a reading, fr. legere to read,
collect. See Legend, and cf. Lection.]
1. Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or
learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a
pupil to be studied or learned at one time.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which is learned or taught by an express effort;
instruction derived from precept, experience, observation,
or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a
lesson in drawing." A smooth and pleasing lesson."
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]

Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

3. A portion of Scripture read in divine service for
instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.
[1913 Webster]

4. A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
[1913 Webster]

She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
--Sir. P.
Sidney.
[1913 Webster]

5. (Mus.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational
purpose; a study.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lesson \Les"son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lessoned (-s'nd); p. pr.
& vb. n. Lessoning.]
To teach; to instruct. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad,
Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
--Byron.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet lesson
n 1: a unit of instruction; "he took driving lessons"
2: punishment intended as a warning to others; "they decided to
make an example of him" [syn: example, {deterrent
example}, object lesson]
3: the significance of a story or event; "the moral of the
story is to love thy neighbor" [syn: moral]
4: a task assigned for individual study; "he did the lesson for
today"
Moby Dictionary
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


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