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Definition of Lesson
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

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

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

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Horace

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

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.
Mike Rogers

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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