LESSON
\lˈɛsən], \lˈɛsən], \l_ˈɛ_s_ə_n]\
Definitions of LESSON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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punishment intended as a warning to others; "they decided to make an example of him"
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a task assigned for individual study; "he did the lesson for today"
By Princeton University
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punishment intended as a warning to others; "they decided to make an example of him"
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a task assigned for individual study; "he did the lesson for today"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.
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A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
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An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.
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A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
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An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
By Noah Webster.
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That which a pupil learns, or repeats, or does for a teacher; instruction given at one time; that which is learned or taught; a portion of scripture read at a church service.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A portion of Scripture read in divine service: that which a pupil learns at a time: a precept or doctrine inculcated: instruction derived from experience: severe lecture.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] A reading or recitation;— a piece of instruction; that which has to be learned and repeated by scholars; that which is explained and enforced by teachers;— the particular portion, as of a text-book, prescribed or gone over at one time;— the portion of Scripture prescribed for the day;— instruction or truth gained by experience;— reproof; rebuke.
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