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lesson

lesson

85 1.0
A task given to a student to do alone
  • noun
  • /ˈlɛsən/
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  • Two students enter practice rooms with the intention of practicing their private lesson assignments.
  • complete the lesson

Examples

  • We will repeat yesterday's lesson.

    The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

  • Tim is practicing his fine-motor skills during a writing lesson in the general education classroom.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Then I went for a third two hour lesson with her again.

  • Would you like another lesson?

    After Office Hours (1935)

  • Each time I successfully completed a lesson, she rewarded me with a holy card.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • I recall a guitar lesson I once taught to a bright middle school student.

    Academic text (2011)

  • - Okay, today's lesson, we're going to be talking about blood cells.

    So Vam (2021)

  • Many of the craft lessons developed into finished essays they later chose to include in the anthology.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Taking dance lessons?

    Dirty Dancing (1987)

  • For homework, the teacher assigned a lesson on the causes of World War II.

Synonyms

homework problem
vslesson
1 1.3

A question or exercise the teacher gives students to do at home

is any task for individual study not limited to work done outside class

Idioms

to teach someone a lesson
  • Informal
139 4.2

Punish someone so they learn not to do it again

to learn one's lesson
  • Informal
34 3.4

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

to teach a lesson
1 3.0

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

Compounds

history lesson
26 1.5

A class where a teacher talks about past events

piano lesson
23 1.7

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

dance lesson
15 1.0

A class where people learn to dance

tennis lesson
7 1.5

A short class where a coach teaches how to play tennis

music lesson
6 1.0

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

object lesson
6 6.1

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

violin lesson
5 2.1

A time when someone teaches you to play the violin

golf lesson
4 1.7

A short class that teaches you how to play golf

moral lesson
3 2.8

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

French lesson
2 1.0

A class where you learn French

language lesson
1 1.6

A class where you learn to speak and understand another language

German lesson
1.3

A class where you learn to speak and understand German

How Big

project
∞ 2.5
assignment
650 1.2
lesson
85 1.0
exercise
171 2.1

Surface Forms

lesson singular
lessons plural

Etymology

Lesson comes from the Latin lectio, from legere 'to read'. Because a lesson was what students had to read or study, it also came to mean the work or task a student must do to learn it.