Meaning of lesson | Babel Free

Definitions

1. lecture
2. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
3. To instruct to teach
4. class (lesson)
5. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided
6. A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
7. class (group of students)
8. A learning task assigned to a student; homework
9. Something learned or to be learned.
10. class (level of society)
11. Something learned or to be learned
12. Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
13. kind, sort, type
14. Something that serves as a warning or encouragement
15. A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
16. A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
17. An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

Equivalents

Examples

“In our school a typical working week consists of around twenty lessons and ten hours of related laboratory work.”

“Nature has many lessons to teach to us.”

“I hope this accident taught you a lesson!”

“The accident was a good lesson to me.”

“Here endeth the first lesson.”

“She would give her a lesson for walking so late.”

The New Arcadia

“The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.”

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