lesson
pronunciation
How to pronounce lesson in British English:
UK [ˈlesn]
How to pronounce lesson in American English:
US [ˈlesn]
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- Noun:
- a unit of instruction
- punishment intended as a warning to others
- the significance of a story or event
- a task assigned for individual study
Word Origin
- lesson
- lesson: [13] Etymologically, a lesson is ‘something read’ – as indeed the lesson read in church still is. The word comes via Old French lecon from Latin lectiō ‘reading’, a derivative of the verb legere ‘read’ (from which English gets lectern, lecture, etc). The word’s educational sense arose from the notion of a passage of text that a child had to read and learn.=> lectern, lecture, legible
- lesson (n.)
- early 13c., "a reading aloud from the Bible," also "something to be learned by a student," from Old French leçon, from Latin lectionem (nominative lectio) "a reading," noun of action from past participle stem of legere "to read" (see lecture (n.)). Transferred sense of "an occurrence from which something can be learned" is from 1580s.
Synonym
Example
- 1. You must learn this lesson .
- 2. He had learned his lesson .
- 3. This raises a broader lesson .
- 4. Microsoft has learned its lesson .
- 5. Does this lesson need restating ?