lesson
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- noun
- /ˈlɛsən/
- Two students enter practice rooms with the intention of practicing their private lesson assignments.
- complete the lesson
Examples
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We will repeat yesterday's lesson.
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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.
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Would you like another lesson?
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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.
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Many of the craft lessons developed into finished essays they later chose to include in the anthology.
Academic text (2015) -
Taking dance lessons?
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For homework, the teacher assigned a lesson on the causes of World War II.
Synonyms
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A question or exercise the teacher gives students to do at home
Idioms
- Informal
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A person notices they made a mistake and does things differently to avoid it again
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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.