Definition of "lesson"

lesson

/ˈlɛsən/

verb
third-person singular simple present lessons, present participle lessoning, simple past and past participle lessoned
1. (archaic) To instruct to teach.
  Quotations
  And you, my sister—you, who lesson me on endurance, your cheek is pale, and your step languid; even with you, how much has life lost its interest!
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 107
noun
plural lessons
1. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
2. A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
3. Something learned or to be learned.
4. Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
5. A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
6. A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
  Quotations
  She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
  a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912,
  The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
7. (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
verb
third-person singular simple present lessons, present participle lessoning, simple past and past participle lessoned
1. To give a lesson to; to teach.
  Quotations
  her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee Made her companion, and her lessoned In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
  1812, Lord Byron, “Canto II”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], stanza LXVIII

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