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lesson

lesson

965 1.0
A moral or practical idea you learn from a story
  • noun
  • /ˈlɛsən/
: 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.