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Noun: lesson  le-sun
  1. A unit of instruction
    "he took driving lessons"
     
  2. Punishment intended as a warning to others
    "they decided to make an object lesson of him";
    - example, deterrent example, object lesson
     
  3. The significance of a story or event
    "the lesson of the story is to love thy neighbour";
    - moral
     
  4. A task assigned for individual study
    "he did the lesson for today"
     
  5. A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a service

Sounds like: leer, Lear, sson, le

Derived forms: lessons

Type of: admonition, import, instruction, meaning, monition, pedagogy, school assignment, schoolwork, significance, signification, teaching, warning, word of advice

Part of: class, course, course of instruction, course of study, didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching

Encyclopedia: Lesson