# lesson
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛsən/, [ˈlɛsn̩]
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* Homophone: lessen
* Hyphenation: les‧son
* Rhymes: -ɛsən

### Verb

lesson (third-person singular simple present lessons, present participle lessoning, simple past and past participle lessoned)
* (archaic) To instruct to teach.
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 107: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!

### Noun

lesson (plural lessons)
* A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
    In our school a typical working week consists of around twenty lessons and ten hours of related laboratory work.
* A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
* Something learned or to be learned.
    Nature has many lessons to teach to us.
* Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
    I hope this accident taught you a lesson!
    The accident was a good lesson to me.
* A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
    Here endeth the first lesson.
* A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
** a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
** 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., →OCLC: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.
* (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

#### Synonyms

* lear
* (religious reading): lection

#### Derived terms

* double lesson
* e-lesson
* epistle lesson
* learn one's lesson
* lesson plan
* lessons learned
* life lesson
* life's lesson
* lime lesson
* object lesson
* teach someone a lesson

#### Related terms

* lectern
* lection
* lecture

#### Translations

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### Verb

lesson (third-person singular simple present lessons, present participle lessoning, simple past and past participle lessoned)
* To give a lesson to; to teach.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee Made her companion, and her lessoned In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
** 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, […], →OCLC, stanza LXVIII:To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.

#### Translations
### See also

* lesson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Lesson in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

### Anagrams

* Elsons, Slones, no less, nosels, nosles, solens

## Middle English
### Noun

lesson
* Alternative form of lessoun