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lesson

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1. lesson - Noun

2. lesson - Verb

Meaning

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.

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

To teach; to instruct.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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they decided to make an example of him Source: Internet

he did the lesson for today Source: Internet

he took driving lessons Source: Internet

the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor Source: Internet

2000 In May 2000, a third person accompanied Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar to Sorbi's Flying Club where he waited on the ground as they took a flight lesson. Source: Internet

According to AFP, the minister referred to the father of a college student from Conflans Sainte-Honorine, who met with the school’s principal to protest Paty’s lesson on freedom of speech before the attack. Source: Internet

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