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lesson

lesson

965 1.0
A moral or practical idea you learn from a story
  • noun
  • /ˈlɛsən/
translation icon : lección
  • What's the biggest lesson you learned from Love Island?
  • lesson learned
  • an important lesson
  • a valuable lesson

What are the major lessons that you take from that?

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Examples

  • He learned a difficult but necessary lesson from his mistakes in the project.

  • So there may be important lessons for us to learn.

  • So it was, yeah, it was a wonderful lesson from the wild.

  • Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself.

  • And I love that answer because it's a great lesson to be present.

  • But this is a lesson in smart spending.

  • What are the major lessons that you take from that?

  • I'm saying learn the lesson and move forward.

  • The victory is to implement the lessons and move forward.

  • We hope that you've drawn valuable lessons from this week's podcast.

Synonyms

moral
vslesson
187 2.9

A lesson learned from a story, event, or experience

means the same but is used as general knowledge from events
13 2.8

A lesson you learn from a story or event

is a learnable piece from events more broadly, not only intended messages
moral lesson
vslesson
3 2.8

A teaching in a story that shows what is right or wrong

is any piece of knowledge or principle beyond behavior rules
take-away
vslesson
1 3.5

The most important idea you learn from a talk or meeting

is specifically a principle about right or wrong learned from stories or events

Idioms

139 4.2

Punish someone so they learn not to do it again

34 3.4

A person notices they made a mistake and does things differently to avoid it again

Make someone learn from an experience so they change how they act

Compounds

A class where a teacher talks about past events

23 1.7

A class where a teacher helps a student learn to play the piano

15 1.0

A class where people learn to dance

A short class where a coach teaches how to play tennis

6 1.0

A time when a teacher shows you how to play an instrument or sing

A clear example, often a punishment, that warns other people

A time when someone teaches you to play the violin

4 1.7

A short class that teaches you how to play golf

3 2.8

A teaching in a story that shows what is right or wrong

A class where you learn French

A class where you learn to speak and understand another language

A class where you learn to speak and understand German

How Important

principle
410 3.4
insight
493 4.9
lesson
965 1.0
detail
1.0

Surface Forms

lesson singular
lessons plural

Etymology

Lesson comes from the Latin lectio, from legere 'to read'. A 'lesson' was originally a passage read aloud, so the 'lesson' of a story is the idea or advice you learn from what was read.