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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lesson
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cookery class/lesson
▪ I had basic cookery lessons at school.
a driving lesson (=in which you are taught to drive)
▪ Jane is having driving lessons.
a golf lesson
▪ I'm thinking of taking golf lessons.
a piano lesson
▪ I started having piano lessons.
elocution lessons
▪ elocution lessons
learned this lesson the hard way
▪ Make sure you put the baby’s diaper on before you start feeding her. I learned this lesson the hard way.
lessons learned
▪ the lessons learned in the Gulf War
salutary experience/lesson/reminder etc
▪ Losing money in this way taught young Jones a salutary lesson.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hard
▪ It had been a hard lesson for some of them.
▪ They leave with nothing but a hard lesson.
▪ As the only country with first-hand experience of modern missile warfare at sea Britain will benefit from its hard learned lesson.
▪ But catastrophe produces spectacle; this is the hard lesson imparted by California history and geology.
▪ The hard and expensive lesson he learnt from the sorry business was that the game could do without him.
important
▪ For senior management an important lesson was the trade unions' capacity to absorb change and to become its agents.
▪ There is an important lesson to be learned here-a lesson in good program management.
▪ Their preservation could have an important lesson for nuclear waste storage.
▪ But solving the mystery also teaches some important lessons about the era ahead.
▪ Hon. Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department.
▪ They learned important lessons about survival from the adversity they had faced.
▪ The most important lesson we can learn from our present educational disarray is that education is for everybody.
▪ When a product or service takes off unexpectedly, there are inevitably important lessons to be learned.
piano
▪ Individual singing lessons are also available, and a limited number of pupils can receive piano lessons at School.
▪ When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.
▪ She listened, nodded, and then told me very shyly that all her life she had wanted to take piano lessons.
▪ Though the whole family sang, he prospered during the piano lessons he received as a birthday present at age 6.
▪ Wilson began piano lessons at age 9 and studied the standard classical repertoire of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
▪ Maybe if I had been sent to piano lessons instead of being sent out to play, I'd see things different.
▪ The children, she said, had piano lessons.
salutary
▪ It was a salutary lesson for me on risking rejection and on my perceived notions of status.
▪ Experience of reality provides the salutary lesson.
▪ Listening to those criticisms has taught me a salutary and humbling lesson.
▪ More simple salutary lessons were being learned in Britain too.
▪ It is extremely disconcerting, and the Madness debate provided a salutary lesson for Morrissey, as well as ourselves.
valuable
▪ A wide variety of valuable lessons is learned at such times when the pupils strengthen their ties with the School Community.
▪ He was going to teach me one of his valuable lessons.
▪ Indeed, it is from our failures that we learn our most valuable lessons.
▪ This teaches the hearer a valuable lesson: dealing in symbols is safe when compared with acting on the real thing.
▪ Competitive sport teaches valuable lessons which last for life.
▪ Watching them work, Truc and I learned several valuable lessons.
▪ For the undertaking m a dominant position, valuable lessons are to be learned from these examples.
▪ A number of them learned valuable lessons from difficult bosses-some even from bad bosses.
■ NOUN
art
▪ So that was why I had all those art lessons!
▪ Did anyone know of some one who gave art lessons?
▪ His hobby is playing golf and he designed his entry during art lessons at school.
▪ But these boys do not have swim team or baseball or sports camp or art lessons or a list of lawn-mowing clients.
▪ It must have shown up in art lessons first.
▪ I did have one moment of triumph during that year of art lessons.
▪ He designed his jumper with a regular pattern of rugby posts and a rugby ball in his extra art lessons at school.
▪ At last, the actual art lesson began.
history
▪ In the middle of a History lesson we heard the good news.
▪ This two-hour concert was just a competent, well-structured history lesson by the king of the Armani blues.
▪ But Brion brings more than history lessons.
▪ This is not the time to talk of the end of history - more a time for some good history lessons.
▪ A little history lesson could be calming, too.
▪ In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson.
▪ A history lesson would be useful.
music
▪ In addition at the London course Music lessons are available at an additional £5 per year.
▪ They went to cultural events, they took music lessons.
▪ We are also offering group music lessons for a limited number of people.
▪ Susan meant to give music lessons, but she can't till she's better.
▪ Example C combines a sequence of four planned 30-minute music lessons with two longer music inputs in the integrated project.
▪ He must have music lessons at once.
▪ After this, he could be hastily driven to a music lesson, followed by a painting or a dancing lesson.
object
▪ It's an object lesson for all feature writers.
▪ She was spared the trauma of dinner, the object lesson in human dignity, and the smoke of Revolution.
▪ The series is an object lesson in, among many other qualities, the differences of gaze.
▪ The highly sophisticated broadcasting industry offers an object lesson in the inadequacy of current standards of measuring public behavior.
▪ The regimented society of social insects such as ants and bees is an object lesson in order and organization.
▪ His experience was an object lesson for young men who are considering a career in government.
▪ And the ride is an object lesson in suppleness and elimination of vibration.
▪ The parched remnants were, for Roosevelt, a stark object lesson in the need for animal protection.
plan
▪ Librarians have expertise to offer here and teachers are capitalising on it, often incorporating these elements in their lesson plans.
▪ The primary lesson plan is that learning should be fun, and that nostalgia rocks.
▪ The manual includes sample lesson plans, as well as guidelines on preparing and evaluating writing workshops.
▪ The district has also built an electronic resource for lesson plans.
▪ A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans.
▪ Teachers may create lesson plans, books, and other teaching materials that they wish to copyright.
▪ Teacher's Book, outlining the methodology and providing detailed lesson plans.
science
▪ We also need to encourage children to use their imaginations in science lessons.
▪ A month later I turned the board for a science lesson and it cracked suddenly and started to collapse all over.
▪ In the classroom, teachers could choose tricks to add entertainment to science lessons.
▪ They would be awakened before daybreak and by eight had already had prayers and a math or science lesson.
▪ They might be asked to contribute information to a careers programme, or technical expertise to a science lesson.
▪ The study sought to shed light on two questions: How do pupils experience school science lessons?
▪ They complained that they were often bored by repeating the same topics during their 11 years of compulsory science lessons.
▪ What kind of things can help to make science lessons come alive?
■ VERB
begin
▪ At first I observed, then began to take some lessons.
▪ After passing the written test, Solomon began his driving lessons.
▪ I did not hope for very much when I began my Alexander lessons, because of my past experiences.
▪ When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.
▪ Wilson began piano lessons at age 9 and studied the standard classical repertoire of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
▪ The teacher directs the latecomers to some seats in the front, and he begins the lesson.
▪ Jessica began taking flying lessons from Reid four months ago.
draw
▪ For if we accept the possibility of human progress, then we must accept and draw on the lessons of the past.
▪ As such, it is intended to draw wider lessons about the workings of pressure groups in modern Britain.
▪ The next morning, he smiled at me and left for work without mentioning my drawing lessons.
▪ Hon. Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department.
▪ The administration drew two lessons from the experience.
▪ It required no elaborate analysis to draw the lesson: economic grievances could only be redressed by achieving political change.
▪ Dole appeared to be drawing a lesson from the last four presidential candidates who ousted the opposition party from the White House.
give
▪ This time he did not mention giving lessons but said it would be lovely to be able to play to me.
▪ On the other hand, who was I to give Leanne lessons?
▪ When schools shut for lack of fuel in the winter, they gave private lessons to the richer peasants' children.
▪ In a phone booth, Celine gives Robert lessons in sounding demanding and ruthless in his ransom calls to Naville.
▪ In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson.
▪ We made it sound as if we were giving sewing lessons after hours.
▪ To ensure continuity, homework should be given after each lesson.
▪ Some guys make $ 300-$ 500 per hour for a lesson and give 4-8 lessons a day.
learn
▪ Should we beat them or lock them up until they learn their lessons?
▪ There is an important lesson to be learned here-a lesson in good program management.
▪ You've learned the same lessons in different ways, which are somehow the same.
▪ They learned important lessons about survival from the adversity they had faced.
▪ But does not this suggest that we have only to learn the same lesson over again?
▪ They had learned an essential lesson about the intricate connection between individual and group performance.
▪ There is still a key opportunity for local authorities to learn the lessons from the national parliamentary mechanisms for scrutiny and accountability.
▪ We had a shot or two, but we learned our lesson.
learnt
▪ He learnt the lesson well, and has since produced an impressive and highly original body of work.
▪ But Bush has learnt a second lesson from Clinton.
▪ We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt.
▪ Trent had learnt this lesson well in his fight against it.
▪ The first hours of Martial Law themselves demonstrated that the regime had learnt the lessons of the 1970s.
▪ Businessmen called for economies, but Roosevelt had learnt the lesson of 1929.
▪ They claim, however, that the Bank has learnt lessons as a result of the experience.
offer
▪ Many schools would like to offer drama lessons, but often there is no-one on the staff to take them.
▪ Mrs Watt offered lessons in music, and manual training was available anywhere on the campus.
▪ A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans.
▪ But recollection also offers lessons that may guide future military decisions.
▪ And although this research is industry-specific, the hope is that it offers insights and design lessons applicable in many areas.
▪ Its significance transcends the boundaries of the United States, for it offers a lesson and example to peoples throughout the world.
▪ It offers a profound lesson about our entire relationship to nature.
▪ The highly sophisticated broadcasting industry offers an object lesson in the inadequacy of current standards of measuring public behavior.
provide
▪ Clear, easy-to-follow teaching aids Each Resource Book provides clear, easy-to-follow lesson menus for you to use in class.
▪ This kind of follow-through provides children with important lessons in reading strategies.
▪ Those who need to know should be provided with the lessons learned as soon as possible.
▪ Playing coevolutionary games in computers has provided other lessons.
▪ Experience of reality provides the salutary lesson.
▪ It brightens the utilitarian facade of our modern building and provides material for lessons.
▪ And although the particulars of their initiatives might differ, the underlying causes of success or failure will provide lessons learned.
read
▪ The minister read a lesson from Job, chapter 2.
▪ Diana would never shout out answers in class or volunteer to read the lessons at assembly.
▪ I hope will be happy to read the first lesson.
start
▪ Some people his grandmother knew had a little girl who wanted to learn the flute and Tom started giving her lessons.
▪ There is also the question of when to start lessons.
▪ Margaret had started driving lessons, was making progress with the solicitor, and spending the occasional evening with friends.
▪ Each time I started a Hebrew lesson, we were interrupted.
▪ Gina did indeed start giving lessons of a kind.
▪ New timetables at four Merseyside schools mean pupils start lessons at 8.30 and go home at 1.50 with just one half-hour break.
▪ Born and raised in Tokyo, Komuro started violin lessons at age 3 and began learning keyboards in elementary school.
▪ I started giving lessons to more pupils, which sometimes involved cycling to houses far out in the country side.
take
▪ Incidentally, brother Louis was then taking lessons on the pianoforte.
▪ They included taking lessons for her advanced driving test, watercolour painting and gardening.
▪ When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.
▪ She escaped with some bruises but was adamant that she would never take lessons from me again.
▪ But they have seen the underbelly of working motherhood, and I think they have taken in all its lessons.
▪ He would dearly like to spend a month taking lessons from him, starting now: would that be possible?
▪ She has taken Singing lessons at Dakshini Academy in Calcutta.
teach
▪ Her Committee would teach him a lesson, she promised herself venomously, as she powdered her face.
▪ In the hotel lobby she continues to teach her own hard-learned lessons.
▪ He would teach her a lesson.
▪ Competitive sport teaches valuable lessons which last for life.
▪ The risk of inflation teaches us another lesson: Do not play it too safe.
▪ L teacher who has taught lots of lessons with the unit.
▪ A father must always teach his son the lessons he has learned.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
object lesson
▪ And the ride is an object lesson in suppleness and elimination of vibration.
▪ His experience was an object lesson for young men who are considering a career in government.
▪ It's an object lesson for all feature writers.
▪ She was spared the trauma of dinner, the object lesson in human dignity, and the smoke of Revolution.
▪ The highly sophisticated broadcasting industry offers an object lesson in the inadequacy of current standards of measuring public behavior.
▪ The regimented society of social insects such as ants and bees is an object lesson in order and organization.
▪ The series is an object lesson in, among many other qualities, the differences of gaze.
▪ There had to be an object lesson or two.
sb has learned their lesson
teach sb a lesson
▪ He was treating me badly, so I left - I just wanted to teach him a lesson.
▪ I hope a night in the cells has taught you a lesson.
▪ They say they beat Scott up to teach him a lesson.
▪ A japanese Brother and Sister A japanese myth teaches a similar lesson to that of Lilith.
▪ He would teach her a lesson.
▪ It was the old mountain teaching another brutal lesson, that the mountain and its weather does not forgive a mistake.
▪ The commander, as an al-Qadhadhfa and ally of the Magharba, should teach them a lesson.
▪ The desire to teach the experts a lesson took on manic proportions.
▪ The risk of inflation teaches us another lesson: Do not play it too safe.
▪ They need to be taught a lesson!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dominic will be having his first driving lesson this Thursday.
▪ Our experience with the fire will serve as a lesson to the entire state.
▪ She gives English lessons to business people in the evenings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But solving the mystery also teaches some important lessons about the era ahead.
▪ It is algebra for today's lesson, my worst topic in maths.
▪ It was a good lesson in humility, he realized.
▪ Should we beat them or lock them up until they learn their lessons?
▪ So feel free to fill your children with lessons and morals from this story.
▪ The lessons which Donaldson has been trying to teach us are reflected throughout the following chapters.
▪ We hope that the pictures, done by Kathleen White, one of the authors, will help you in choosing lessons.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lesson

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.

  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.

    Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind.
    --Chaucer.

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

  4. A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

    She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
    --Sir. P. Sidney.

  5. (Mus.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

Lesson

Lesson \Les"son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lessoned (-s'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lessoning.] To teach; to instruct.
--Shak.

To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
--Byron.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lesson

early 13c., "a reading aloud from the Bible," also "something to be learned by a student," from Old French leçon, from Latin lectionem (nominative lectio) "a reading," noun of action from past participle stem of legere "to read" (see lecture (n.)). Transferred sense of "an occurrence from which something can be learned" is from 1580s.

Wiktionary
lesson

n. 1 A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. 2 A learning task assigned to a student; homework. 3 Something learned or to be learned. 4 Something that serves as a warning or encouragement. 5 A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service. 6 A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning. vb. To give a lesson to; to teach.

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WordNet
lesson

  1. n. 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"

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Wikipedia
Lesson

A lesson is a structured period of time where learning is intended to occur. It involves one or more students (also called pupils or learners in some circumstances) being taught by a teacher or instructor. A lesson may be either one section of a textbook (which, apart from the printed page, can also include multimedia) or, more frequently, a short period of time during which learners are taught about a particular subject or taught how to perform a particular activity. Lessons are generally taught in a classroom but may instead take place in a situated learning environment.

In a wider sense, a lesson is an insight gained by a learner into previously unfamiliar subject-matter. Such a lesson can be either planned or accidental, enjoyable or painful. The colloquial phrase "to teach someone a lesson", means to punish or scold a person for a mistake they have made in order to ensure that they do not make the same mistake again.

Lessons can also be made entertaining. When the term education is combined with entertainment, the term edutainment is coined.

Lesson (disambiguation)

A lesson is a structured period of time where learning is intended to occur.

Lesson or lessons may also refer to:

  • a reading from scripture also known as a lection
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Usage examples of "lesson".

She related to me in the most assuring manner that the handsomest of all the nuns in the convent loved her to distraction, gave her a French lesson twice a-day, and had amicably forbidden her to become acquainted with the other boarders.

In this state of disgrace and agony, two bishops, Isaiah of Rhodes and Alexander of Diospolis, were dragged through the streets of Constantinople, while their brethren were admonished, by the voice of a crier, to observe this awful lesson, and not to pollute the sanctity of their character.

He advertised liberally, profusely, but with extraordinary shrewdness, and with a method which is in itself a lesson to all who seek business by that perfectly legitimate means.

I must find him: I must continue my lessons: I must lead him into the adytum of Wisdom.

Essentially the alchemical texts contained lessons in sex magic and chemistry at the same time.

When Alec mentioned the writing lessons with Seregil, the wizard brought writing materials and a simple scroll for him to work on.

Lukien always remembered the hard-won lessons of the street, and he had never forgiven his drunken father for leaving him, nor his mother for dying.

The lessons would start, both of them in great amiability, then her stupidity would irritate him, she see that he was checking it, and so she would burst into tears and run to her room.

Dagnarus knew of it only because Captain Argot had brought the prince there as a youth, to illustrate a lesson on the importance of the outpost to the defense of what had then been a large fishing village.

The pupil will see that he has not the necessary arithmetical knowledge to solve the problem and will then be in the proper mental attitude for the lesson.

In this delicate transition period from the womb to the world, babies are learning fundamental, if primitive, lessons about whether this new world is a responsive and nurturing one, about whether or not they have any effect on their environment, about how their needs are met.

Mijnheer Beek, rather to her surprise, expressed regret at her going, although he was quick to point out that just as soon as he returned from his holiday he would expect her to resume her lessons and, what was more, study hard while he was away.

It may be no unsalutary lesson to the Christian world, that this silent, this unavoidable, perhaps, yet fatal change shall have been drawn by an impartial, or even an hostile hand.

The others girls began to whisper to each other, and guessing what they must be saying I turned to Dupre without taking any notice of Madame Madcap, and gave him twelve pistoles, saying that I would pay for the lessons three months in advance, and that I hoped he would bring his new pupil on well.

I gave her a regular lesson for an hour, and seeing that she was getting rather tired I begged her to sit down, and I went out to pay a visit to M.