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/lˈɛsən/ Listen

noun

Lesson n.

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.

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." "Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind."

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

A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning. "She would give her a lesson for walking so late."

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

verb

Lesson v. t. (past & past part. lessoned; pres. part. lessoning) To teach; to instruct. "To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad."

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"Lesson" Quotes from Famous Books

... thing; you will laugh, but my enthusiasm was for chivalry, Christian chivalry, half symbolic. History was delightful to me for the search for true knights. I had lists of them, drawings if possible, but I never could indoctrinate anybody with my affection. Either history is only a lesson, or they know a great deal too much, and will prove to you that the Cid was a ruffian, and the Black Prince ...

— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge

... I look upon as sons. One is named Arch-ee; the other Leetil Beel. Now," continued Okematan, after a pause, "my advice is that we should teach the Paleface chiefs over the great salt lake a lesson, by receiving the poor braves who have been driven away from their own lands and treating them as brothers. Our land is large. There is room for all—and our chiefs will never seize it. Our hearts are large; there is plenty ...

— The Buffalo Runners - A Tale of the Red River Plains • R.M. Ballantyne

... were almost exhausted when the "lesson" was finished. It left Blue Blazes ridged with welts, trembling, fright sickened. Never again would he trust himself within reach of those men; no, not if they offered him a ...

— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford

... Jane upstairs and left Mr. Worthington and Cynthia together. This matter had been arranged between the sisters before supper. Susan found her opening at last, and upbraided Jane for her unfinished theme; Jane, having learned her lesson well, accused Susan. But Cynthia, who saw through the ruse, declared that both themes were finished. Susan, naturally indignant at such ingratitude, denied this. The manoeuvre, in short, was executed very clumsily and very obviously, but executed nevertheless—the sisters marching ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... of that lot were; it was that he made depravity a pursuit; and, the purple favoring, carried it not only beyond the limits of the imaginable, but beyond the limits of the real. At the feet of that painted boy, Elephantis and Parrhasius could have sat and learned a lesson. Apart from that phase of his sovereignty, he was a little Sardanapalus, an Asiatic mignon, who found ...

— Imperial Purple • Edgar Saltus

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