Definitions for lesson

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lesson les·son

Spelling: [les-uh n]

IPA: /ˈlɛs ən/

Lesson is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in lesson (elnoss).

Definitions for lesson

noun

1. a section into which a course of study is divided, especially a single, continuous session of formal instruction in a subject:
2. a part of a book, an exercise, etc., that is assigned to a student for study:
3. something to be learned or studied:
4. a useful piece of practical wisdom acquired by experience or study:
5. something from which a person learns or should learn; an instructive example:
6. a reproof or punishment intended to teach one better ways.
7. a portion of Scripture or other sacred writing read or appointed to be read at a divine service; lection; pericope.

verb (used with object)

1. to teach; instruct; give a lesson to.
2. to admonish or reprove.

Origin of lesson

1175-1225; Middle English lesso(u)n Old French leçon Latin lēctiōn- (stem of lēctiō) lection

Examples for lesson

The testimony is damning: the world has not learned its lesson.

The healthy and the young might read a lesson on her blanched and wrinkled cheek.

The question is whether universities will learn their lesson.

The second lesson is that no one writing before the twentieth century holds a key to our problems.

So maybe we should take a lesson from women with brass ovaries: comedy and feminism are longstanding bedfellows.

Isn't it time Kate took a lesson from her grandmother-in-law and weighted down those skirts against the pesky wind?

You'd better not tell him so, or he might give you a lesson in politeness.

And after the lesson he had given them but the night before!

The use of a Scripture lesson is, of course, optional with the pastor.

He had learned his lesson of experience, and profited thereby.