Definition of Lesson

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Lesson

Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.

A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.

A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

To teach; to instruct.

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Lesson Quotations

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo Philips

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Lesson Translations

lesson in Afrikaans is les
lesson in Dutch is les
lesson in German is Lehrstunde {f}, Lektion
lesson in Italian is lezione, lezione

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