[ UK /lˈɛsən/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɛsən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a unit of instruction
    he took driving lessons
  2. the significance of a story or event
    the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
  3. punishment intended as a warning to others
    they decided to make an example of him
  4. a task assigned for individual study
    he did the lesson for today
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How To Use lesson In A Sentence

  • To supplement his income, he taught private voice lessons in his home and sang in a church choir.
  • The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
  • Today's lesson focuses on how to write a summary of a news article.
  • He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
  • Well, sir, I won't say anything about the hextry gas, though a poor widder and sevenpence hextry on the thousand, but I'm thinkin 'if you would give my Rosie a lesson once a week on that there pianner, it would be a kind of set-off, for you know, sir, the policeman tells me your winder is a landmark to' im on the foggiest nights. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
  • How many fathers would drive their daughter 120 miles through mountainous terrain so she could attend weekly ballet and singing lessons?
  • The jockey was said to have undergone lessons in etiquette; the horse had not, though it acquitted itself extremely well. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this lesson, learn the basics of playing barre chords.
  • That lesson has been read as an encouraging one. The Times Literary Supplement
  • A class of boys is being led through a lesson about what water is safe to drink.
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