tennis lesson
7
1.5
- noun
- /ˈtɛnɪs ˈlɛsən/
:
clase de tenis
- I take tennis lessons three times a week on my own private court.
- take tennis lessons
- private tennis lesson
- free tennis lessons
So yesterday I was at my tennis lesson and I was playing awful.
- So yesterday I was at my tennis lesson and I was playing awful.
- You know, wouldn't he rest for his next tennis lesson in the morning and things, you know, this is, it's weird, the whole thing.
Examples
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Yesterday, my son and I were walking home from his tennis lesson when we saw a few of these kids—unsupervised!—in the yard four houses down from our house.
Blog text (26) -
She gives me tennis lessons and I give her Caesar salads.
Fiction book (1990) -
Okay, maybe, you want your kid to have some tennis lessons?
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How was the tennis lesson?
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Have fun at your tennis lesson.
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See, I started taking tennis lessons from Matt.
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Kayley's got a tennis lesson that starts in five minutes.
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She's at her tennis lesson.
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"I do apologize if I've kept you waiting," he said, "but my tennis lesson ran late."
Fiction book (1995) -
Kayley's got a tennis lesson that starts in five minutes.
Synonyms
532
1.0
A period of teaching about one subject
141
1.9
Teaching or training given to help someone learn a skill
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is a straightforward composition of 'tennis' (the sport) and 'lesson' (an instructional session), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer it refers to an instructional session for tennis. This noun phrase follows common cross-linguistic compounding patterns and uses high-frequency, literal words, making it immediately understandable.
Etymology
Tennis lesson comes from putting tennis and lesson together: imagine a coach on the court showing you how to hit the ball and correcting your strokes. That's why the phrase means 'a time when someone teaches you how to play tennis'.