violin lesson
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2.1
- noun
- /vaɪəˈlɪn ˈlɛsən/
:
clase de violín
- She takes violin lessons.
- taking violin lessons
- giving violin lessons
- years of violin lessons
Examples
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And now, my daughter started taking violin lessons and I'm losing my mind with the sound of that.
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Well, guess who's getting violin lessons.
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I have my violin lessons.
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I still go to her house once a week to give her a violin lesson.
Academic text (2006) -
The boy took violin lessons after school, a thing he seemed to enjoy.
Fiction book (1996) -
But over the weekend, the more she thought about her violin lessons, the more depressed she became.
Fiction book (1998) -
Anna had to race there from violin lessons and made it only seconds before her mother's car appeared.
Fiction book (1998) -
We talked about this activity while Shannon was at her violin lesson.
Academic text (2000) -
The son of public school music educators, Timothy Judd, began violin lessons at the age of four through Eastman's Community Education Division.
Blog text (15) -
I started taking violin lessons when I was just five years old.
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
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a period of instruction in playing the violin' is directly and transparently built from 'violin' (the instrument) + 'lesson' (an instructional session). This noun-noun combination follows a common compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Violin lesson comes from the simple image of a teacher and student meeting to learn the violin. A lesson was 'a set time to learn', so the phrase means 'a time to learn to play the violin'.