moral lesson
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈmɔrəl ˈlɛsən/
:
lección moral
- The story ends with a clear moral lesson about the importance of honesty.
- teach a moral lesson
- draw moral lessons
Examples
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Moreover, Dickens's novel concludes with a moral lesson of personal and collective redemption.
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It teaches a moral lesson.
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There is a particular moral lesson to be learned during each of the major phases of human development.
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There are a lot of moral lessons incorporated into most religions.
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Images of Beauty also provided moral lessons for the Maya.
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I listen to what is going on around me, especially to elders, and try to provide moral lessons to educate and entertain people.
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Some translations of their tales and adaptations have changed parts of the tale, but the moral lessons remain intact.
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The point applies to all fiction, whether or not it has overt moral lessons like those found in Aesop's fables.
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A report from a school reform committee in Massachusetts lamented that history teachers were not doing enough to instill moral lessons in their students, citing the Bosomworth case as one example of a subject that could be used to do so.
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To combat the Republican principles that portrayed individual accomplishments as corrosive to the public good, Franklin appeals to his readers' pragmatism and presents them with moral lessons that describe the ways wealth can be redistributed and shared with society once earned.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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1.0
A moral or practical idea you learn from a story
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A lesson learned from a story, event, or experience
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2.8
A lesson you learn from a story or event
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A rule or belief about what is right and wrong that guides how people act
How Religious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a teaching about right or wrong behavior' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'moral' (relating to right/wrong) with 'lesson' (a teaching or takeaway). This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase common across languages and predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Moral lesson may come from old stories and fables where, at the end, the storyteller would say the moral or the lesson to show the right way to behave. So, it now means 'a teaching about right and wrong'.