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LESSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A task assigned for individual study
Example:
he did the lesson for today
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lesson" is a kind of...):
school assignment; schoolwork (a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lesson"):
example; exercise (a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding)
reading assignment (the reading of a passage assigned by the teacher)
history lesson (a lesson in the facts of history)
Holonyms ("lesson" is a part of...):
didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A unit of instruction
Example:
he took driving lessons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lesson" is a kind of...):
instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lesson"):
language lesson (a period of instruction learning a language)
dance lesson (a lesson in dancing)
music lesson (a lesson in performing music)
tennis lesson (a lesson in playing tennis)
golf lesson (a lesson in playing golf)
Holonyms ("lesson" is a part of...):
class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The significance of a story or event
Example:
the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
Synonyms:
lesson; moral
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lesson" is a kind of...):
import; meaning; significance; signification (the message that is intended or expressed or signified)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Punishment intended as a warning to others
Example:
they decided to make an example of him
Synonyms:
deterrent example; example; lesson; object lesson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lesson" is a kind of...):
admonition; monition; warning; word of advice (cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness))
Context examples:
Mrs. Rushworth was gone to repeat her lesson to Mr. Crawford; and Edmund, Fanny, and Miss Crawford remained in a cluster together.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This lesson, she very much feared, they would receive only from herself; she had little hope of Mr. Knightley, none of Mr. Weston.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Writing and accounts she was taught by her father; French by her mother: her proficiency in either was not remarkable, and she shirked her lessons in both whenever she could.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
If you are attached, you may decide to have another baby or to help a child you already have with special lessons.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was indeed my misfortune to find them at that time not very perfect in their lessons, and the professor himself happened to be generally mistaken.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Such is the lesson I have learned from biology, or at least think I have learned.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Yes, said Mrs Smith more doubtingly, sometimes it may, though I fear its lessons are not often in the elevated style you describe.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A final personal message or document in which a person shares his or her thoughts, values, memories, life lessons, advice, and hopes for the future.
(Ethical will, NCI Dictionary)
