1 a period of time in which sb is taught sth:
She gives piano lessons. * All new students are given lessons in / on how to use the library. * I'm having / taking driving lessons. * (especially BrE) Our first lesson on Tuesdays is French. * (especially BrE) What did we do last lesson?
compareCLASS
2 something that is intended to be learned:
The course book is divided into 30 lessons. * Other EU members can teach us a lesson or two on industrial policy.
3 ~ (to sb) an experience, especially an unpleasant one, that sb can learn from so that it does not happen again in the future:
a salutary / valuable lesson * Let that be a lesson to you! * The accident taught me a lesson I'll never forget. * Their openness was a terrific lesson to me. * We are still absorbing the harsh lessons of this disaster. * It was a lesson not lost on (= learned well by) the team manager.
seealsoOBJECTLESSON
4 a passage from the Bible that is read aloud during a church service:
The first lesson is taken from St John's Gospel.
IDIOMS see LEARN
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lesson is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lesson a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lesson is tagged as noun.
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