piano lesson
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1.7
- noun
- /piˈænoʊ ˈlɛsən/
:
clase de piano
- I took a piano lesson last week and learned how to play my favorite song.
- take piano lessons
- private piano lessons
My parents forced me to take piano lessons and I hated it.
- My parents forced me to take piano lessons and I hated it.
- And imagine if his parents signed him up for club soccer and piano lessons and Kumon or Sylvan Learning Center, where, you know, fill in the blank.
- Well, you know, my mom had us play, do some piano lessons when we were pretty young.
- I started out taking a classical piano lessons first.
- You know, we spent too much, we wasted the money or we denied corrective lesson or soccer lesson or ballet lesson or piano lessons because it's expensive.
Examples
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My parents put me in piano lessons when I was 5, but honestly, I've always loved singing more than anything.
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After a long day, I look forward to my piano lesson every Thursday evening.
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Well, you know, my mom had us play, do some piano lessons when we were pretty young.
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I think we need more than a piano lesson today.
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We're gonna need some piano lessons over here.
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I have pretty strong hands from piano lessons.
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Bob has started piano lessons.
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During that same time period, I started piano lessons, which continued off and on during the next several years.
Academic text (2000) -
Many parents start their children on string and piano lessons at a very early age.
Academic text (1997) -
At age twelve, my mother released me from piano lessons on the condition that I not give up music.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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1.0
A period of teaching about one subject
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1.0
A time when a teacher shows you how to play an instrument or sing
About teaching by a tutor or in small group sessions
How Intensive
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5.3
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an occasion of instruction in playing the piano' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'piano' (the instrument) with 'lesson' (an instructional session). This straightforward noun–noun composition is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Piano lesson comes from the simple picture of a teacher and student at a piano, where the teacher shows how to play and the student practices. So a piano lesson is simply a lesson at the piano, meaning 'a time when someone is taught how to play the piano'.