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UK
/lˈɛsən/
]
[ US /ˈɫɛsən/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɛsən/ ]
NOUN
-
a unit of instruction
he took driving lessons -
the significance of a story or event
the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor -
punishment intended as a warning to others
they decided to make an example of him -
a task assigned for individual study
he did the lesson for today
How To Use lesson In A Sentence
- 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
- To supplement his income, he taught private voice lessons in his home and sang in a church choir.
- 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.