lesson

Definition

  • noun: an activity that you do in order to learn something
  • noun: a passage from sacred writings read in a service of worship
  • verb: to give a lesson to
  • synonyms: instruct, precept, doctrine

Examples

  • I'm glad they got caught. That will 'teach them a lesson'! [=they will learn that they should not do that again]

  • We 'learned our lesson' the hard way. [=we learned from an unpleasant experience]

  • They studied the 'lessons' [='teachings'] of the great philosophers.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) planned out. I get up in the morning... breakfast, math tutor, Latin tutor, lunch, tennis lessons, dance lessons... sometimes both... French tutor, piano lesson, then I eat dinner. And after dinner I spend time with my family. And then l... I catch up on some reading. (..)
    2004 The Notebook