Lesson

Definition: Lesson

Lesson

Noun

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".

3. The significance of a story or event; "the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor".

4. A task assigned for individual study; "he did the lesson for today".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lesson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Lesson

Conformity

Example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification, illustration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation.

Disapprobation

Reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue; bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.

Memory

Get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers' ends.

Punishment

Visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one.

Teaching

Homework; take-home lesson; exercise for the student; theme, project.

Expound; (interpret); lecture; read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse; incept; hold forth, preach; sermonize, moralize; point a moral.

Explanation; (interpretation); lesson, lecture, sermon; apologue, parable; discourse, prolection, preachment; chalk talk; Chautauqua.

Warning

Noun: warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice; (information); premonition, premonishment; prediction; contraindication, lesson, dehortation; admonition, monition; alarm.

Crosswords: Lesson

They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I would have thought you'd have learned your lesson. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

Let me give you an anatomy lesson. This is my stomach (Vampire in Brooklyn; writing credit: Michael Lucker, Charles Murphy, Christopher Parker)

Here endeth the lesson. (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness)

That is the lesson. (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari)

The lesson hadn't gone too far. (Taxi; performing artist: Harry Chapin)

This is a true confession of a life learned lesson I was sent here to share wit (Video; performing artist: India.Arie)

For the most important lesson in life was when you said (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z)

And Leroy Brown learned a lesson (Bad, Bad Leroy Brown; performing artist: Jim Croce)

Cause life is a lesson, you learn it when you're through (Take A Look Around; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

We could all take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. (references; author: unknown)

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. (references; author: unknown)

The lesson is what you read in the fine print. The experience is what you get when you don't. (references; author: unknown)

The Singing Lesson (1967)

Skipper Learns a Lesson (1952)

Jasper's Music Lesson (1943)

Scrappy's Music Lesson (1937)

Lesson in Golf (1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Art Lesson (reference)

• Tom Lynch 100 Watercolor Workshop Lesson Charts (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Standard Lesson Commentary - King James Version - Hardcover Ed (reference)

• Tarbells Kjv-nrsv Lesson Commentary (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (reference)

• Emmanuelle in Space - A Lesson in Love (reference)

• Thomas the Tank Engine - James Learns a Lesson (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dance Lesson #2 (reference)

• Life's a Lesson (reference)

• Old School Jams: The History Lesson (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Barren Island before the planting. The work at Barren Island provided a valuable lesson. Geotubes were placed around the perimeter of the island to form a wave break but they failed and the dredge material was washed away behind the tubes. Wave breaks in the future will be constructed of rock, which is more expensive, but a better alternative. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Glenn Page gives a lesson in water quality monitoring. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Jacksonville Elementary School students given an environmental education lesson. Credit: Tim Haller.

Children and parents receive an environmental education lesson at the Table Rocks. Credit: Tim Haller.

Eye anatomy lesson. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

A Lesson in Bandaging. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Anatomy lesson for midwives]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

African American man giving piano lesson to young African American woman. Credit: Library of Congress.

Columbia teaching John Bull his new lesson. Credit: Library of Congress.

A dancing lesson, one hundred years ago. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She is a standing lesson of how to be happy

I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now.

Not a metaphor, not an etymology of argot which does not contain its lesson.

Father Arnall came in and the Latin lesson began and he remained still, leaning on the desk with his arms folded

But Ma took a lesson from it.

To this they only replied with a smile of contempt, saying that the farmer had instructed me very well in my lesson.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Breathing Techniques Learning to breathe properly is another very important lesson for people with asthmatic bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, or emphysema. (references)

Business

The lesson for foreign suppliers is that packaging design is now a complex balance, and those that do not update their packaging will be left behind or experience difficulties in market acceptance. (references)

Industry experts indicate that Argentina learned the lesson from the crisis following the devaluation of the Mexican currency in 1995. Because things have changed since then, the Brazilian crisis did not impact in this industry sector as severely as initially anticipated. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Books which have been translated into the Indonesian language under the auspices of the program include Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, Return to Depression Economics by Paul Krugman and The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lesson": dance lesson ♦ dancing lesson ♦ draw a lesson from smth. ♦ driving lesson ♦ elocution lesson ♦ extra lesson ♦ french lesson ♦ german lesson ♦ give a good lesson ♦ give a lesson ♦ give smb. a lesson ♦ golf lesson ♦ harsh lesson ♦ he has learnt his lesson ♦ hebrew lesson ♦ history lesson ♦ instructive lesson ♦ language lesson ♦ learn a lesson ♦ learn one's lesson ♦ let this be a lesson to you ♦ let this be a lesson to you! ♦ music lesson ♦ object lesson ♦ physics lesson ♦ piano lesson ♦ practical lesson ♦ private lesson ♦ read smb. a lesson ♦ scripture lesson ♦ singing lesson ♦ teach smb.'s lesson ♦ tennis lesson ♦ this was a lesson to me ♦ violin lesson. Additional references.

Beginning with "lesson": lesson-a-week, lesson-book, lesson-books.

Ending with "lesson": boxing-lesson, Funkin-lesson, music-lesson, object-lesson, specific-lesson, ten-lesson.

Afrikaans

les. (various references)

Albanian

mësim (doctrine, education, instruction, learning, reeducation, school, study, teaching, warning), i jap një mësim. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مثل عبره (example, warning), ‏حصة (allocation, allotment, class, class period, cut, dividend, lot, part, percentage, period, portion, proportion, quantum, ration, share, slice, whack), ‏توبيخ (admonition, censure, correction, dressing down, objurgation, rap, rating, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, scolding, talking to, telling off, upbraiding, wig), ‏عبرة (example, moral, teardrop, warning), ‏أمثولة (example), ‏درس (case, classes, consideration, din into, elaborate, examine, excogitate, go over, instruction, learn, learning, lecture, period, profess, read, read up, reading, study, talk over, teach, think out, tutor, view). (various references)

Bulgarian 

урок (example, object lesson, recitation), уча (get up, instruct, learn, read, school, study, teach, tutor), обучавам (discipline, drill, form, ground, instruct, pace, school, take, teach, train, tutor, verse), нотация (lecture, notation), мъмря (call down, caution, correct, lecture, objurgate, rap, rebuke, reprimand, school, scold), поучение (instruction, lecturing, precept, sermon), поука (example, message, moral). (various references)

Catalan

lliçó. (various references)

Chinese 

課業 (schoolwork), 課 (class, subject), 教训, 教訓 . (various references)

Czech

lekce, vyučovací hodina, ètení z písma. (various references)

Danish

undervisning i praktiske fag (practical lesson), praktisk undervisning (practical lesson). (various references)

Dutch

les. (various references)

Esperanto

leciono. (various references)

Faeroese

undirvísingartími, tími (hour, o'clock, time). (various references)

Farsi 

تدریس کردن (Prelect, Profess), درس دادن به , درس (Lecture, Point, Study). (various references)

Finnish

läksytys (rating, rebuke), läksy, tunti (hour, o'clock, time), teksti (caption, lyric, print, text, wording), tehtävä (commission, duty, function, mission, problem, task), oppitunti (class), opetustunti (class, period), opetus (education, instruction, moral, teaching, training). (various references)

French

leçon. (various references)

Frisian

leksum. (various references)

German

Lektion (section), Unterrichtsstunde (period), Lehrstunde. (various references)

Greek 

μάθημα. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקח (instruction, learning, moral, take, teaching), שעור (coordinate, estimation, installment, limit, measure, norm, pitch, portion, proportion, rate, ratio, size), פרק (chapter, section). (various references)

Hungarian

lecke (home lessons, homework, prep, task). (various references)

Indonesian

pelajaran (subject, training), i'tibar (consideration, contemplation, learning, observation, view), ajaran (doctrine, punishment, teaching, theory). (various references)

Irish

ceacht. (various references)

Italian

lezione (hour, lecture, reading, time, tutorial). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

見せしめ (example, warning), 習い事 (accomplishment, practice), レスキュー隊 (label, ladies, ladies first, lady, Lady Borden, laisser-faire, lead, led, leg warmers, lesbian, lesser panda, letter, letter facsimile, letterhead, lettering, lettuce, medical practitioners' receipt for health insurance claim, medical prescription, ready-made, reception, red, red purge, red tape, Redmond, rescue squad, resolution, resonance, respirator, response, rest, rest house, rest room, restaurant, restaurant hotel, restaurant theater, retort, retouch, rhetoric, sticker, tow truck, wrestling), 授業　 (class work), 授業 (class work), 教訓　 (moral instruction, precept), 教訓 (moral instruction, precept), 教え (doctrine, precept, teachings), 学課 (school work). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしえ (doctrine, precept, raised cloth picture, teachings), がっか (course of study, school work, slip of tongue, study subject, superb), レッスン , ならいごと (accomplishment, practice), きょうくん (moral instruction, precept), じゅぎょう (class work), みせしめ (example, warning). (various references)

Korean 

학습 (learning). (various references)

Malay

pelajaran. (various references)

Manx

ynsaghey lessoon da. (various references)

Maya

xook. (various references)

Norwegian

lekse, lærepenge, undervisningstime. (various references)

Papago

mashchamathag. (various references)

Papiamen

lès. (various references)

Pig Latin

essonlay.(various references)

Polish

lekcja. (various references)

Portuguese

lição (example, lection, task), aula (class, lecture). (various references)

Romanian

lecţie (class, lore, period, school, session, task, teaching, tuition). (various references)

Romansch

lecziun. (various references)

Russian 

урок (class, draw the moral, job). (various references)

Scottish

leasan. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lekcija (lection), učiti (instruct, learn, study, teach, train), pouka (instruction, moral, object lesson, precept), poučavati (instruct), nauk (moral). (various references)

Sicilian

lezzioni. (various references)

Spanish

lección (class, lection, message). (various references)

Swedish

lektion (class, period), läxa (homework). (various references)

Thai

บทเรียน, สั่งสอน (teach), ตอนหนึ่งในพระคัมภีร์, ตัวอย่าง (example, sample), ว่ากล่าว (lecture). (various references)

Turkish

ibret (example, object lesson, one in the eye, warning), ders (class, example, lecture, morals, object lesson, one in the eye, subject, teaching, training). (various references)

Turkmen 

sapak (thread). (various references)

Ukrainian

урок, учити (instruct, study, teach), застереження (admonishment, admonition, caution, caveat, clause, condition, document, notification, provision, qualification, reservation, restriction, salvo, warning), завдання (assignment, errand, job, objective, problem, task), заняття (affair, affairs, career, engagement, metier, occupation, profession, pursuit, school, trade, walk, work). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lời khuyên lời quở trách, sự trừng phạt (amercement, castigation, chastisement, punishment, retribution, toco, toko), bài học lời dạy bảo. (various references)

Welsh

gwers (verse). (various references)

documentum, praecepta, praecepti, praeceptis, praecepto, praeceptorum, praeceptum. (various references)

document. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lesson": lessoned, lessoning, lessons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lesson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: besson, Bessons, Blasson, esso, essof, esson, Gestsson, Kesson, Lacson, lassin, Lasson, Lassoon, Lauson, leason, leasons, lechon, Leesons, legson, leison, lesbon, lesoe, Leson, Lesponne, lessa, Lessem, lessing, lession, less'n, Lessnoff, Lessof, lessor, lessoun, liasson, lieson, Lipson, lisson, lissons, Lossou, Luson, lusso, nessuno, Pessons, Selson, Selsun, Tleson. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: enols, lenos, loess, loses, noels, noses, sloes, soles, sones.

-2 letters: enol, eons, leno, lens, less, lone, lose, loss, ness, noel, noes, nose, oles, ones, oses, sels, sloe, sole, sols, sone, sons.

-3 letters: els, ens, eon, ess, nos, oes, ole, one, ons, ose, sel, sen, sol, son, sos.

-4 letters: el, en, es, lo, ne, no.

+1 letter: ensouls, insoles, kelsons, lesions, lessons, lioness, loosens, lowness, nelsons, oldness, slovens, sonless, telsons.

+2 letters: anisoles, boldness, boneless, clonuses, coldness, consoles, coolness, counsels, elisions, elusions, encloses, enolases, epsilons, foulness, holiness, hornless, incloses, isolines, keelsons, knotless, lessoned, lewisson, lionises, loginess, loneness, longness, lornness, lostness, loudness, lysogens, moonless, noblesse, normless, noseless, noteless, nounless, oiliness, ovalness, seasonal, selenous, slowness, snoozles, snorkels, snowless, soleness, solonets, solvents, songless, stollens, sulfones, toneless, townless, uncloses, unlooses, zoneless.