lessonles‧son /ˈlesən/ ●●● S2 W3 noun [countable] 
piano lessonshave/take lessons She’s started taking driving lessons.lesson in/on lessons in First Aid lessons in road safety2in school British English a period of time in which school students are taught a particular subject SYN class American English: Lessons start at 9 o'clock.French/physics/art etc lesson I’ve got a double maths lesson next.lesson in/on Andrew gives private lessons in Spanish.3experience something that provides experience or information that you can learn from and uselearn a lesson (=gain useful experience or information) There were important lessons to be learned from these discoveries. The government has failed to learn the lessons of history.lesson to The men’s courage and faith is a lesson to us all. Now let that be a lesson to you all (=be careful to avoid having the same bad experience again). Her fate should be a salutary lesson (=one that teaches or warns you about something).4book a part of a book that is used for learning a particular subject, especially in school: Turn to lesson 25.5church a short piece that is read from the Bible during a religious ceremony → somebody has learned their lesson at learn(5), → teach somebody a lesson at teach(6)COLLOCATIONS– Meanings 1 & 2verbstake lessons· He started taking piano lessons at age four.have lessons· I have swimming lessons on Friday.go to a lesson (also attend a lesson formal)· I have to go to my French lesson now.give lessons (=teach lessons)· She made a living giving private lessons in English.prepare a lesson· The teachers spend a long time preparing their lessons.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + lessona history/physics/maths etc lesson· I've got a history lesson this afternoon.a driving/swimming etc lesson· Dad said he'd pay for driving lessons as my birthday present.a piano/guitar etc lesson· I'd just started classical guitar lessons.a private lesson (=a lesson specially for one person rather than for a class)· He gave private lessons in mathematics at the weekends.
WORD ORIGINlesson
Origin:
1100-1200 Old French leçon, from Latin lectio ‘act of reading’, from legere; ➔ LEGENDEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Dominic will be having his first driving lesson this Thursday.
- Our experience with the fire will serve as a lesson to the entire state.
- She gives English lessons to business people in the evenings.
- But solving the mystery also teaches some important lessons about the era ahead.
- It is algebra for today's lesson, my worst topic in maths.
- It was a good lesson in humility, he realized.
- Should we beat them or lock them up until they learn their lessons?
- So feel free to fill your children with lessons and morals from this story.
- The lessons which Donaldson has been trying to teach us are reflected throughout the following chapters.
- We hope that the pictures, done by Kathleen White, one of the authors, will help you in choosing lessons.
Longman Language Activatorthe period of time during which a class is taught
a period of time, usually about 30 minutes to one hour, in which a teacher teaches a group of students: · Heidi fainted during French class today!· Let's go - I have my first class in 10 minutes!
a period in which someone teaches one person or a group of people - use this especially about practical skills such as music, swimming, or driving, or in British English about a class in a school: · Dominic will be having his first driving lesson this Thursday.· She gives English lessons to business people in the evenings.
one of the periods of time that a school day is divided into: · At our school we have four periods in the morning and three in the afternoon.double period British (=one class which lasts for two periods): · On Monday mornings there was French, English, and then a double period of maths.
the period of time in which a particular subject or a particular area of a subject is taught, especially when this is one of a fixed number of classes: · We have 5 hours of English a week, including one session in the language laboratory.
a long talk on a subject, given by a teacher at a college or university, and listened to by a large number of students: lecture on: · a lecture on the causes of the Russian Revolutiongive a lecture: · Professor Blair is giving a series of lectures on Einstein's theories.
a class, usually at a college or university, where a teacher and small group of students discuss a subject: seminar on: · Every week we have a seminar on modern political theory.
a regular class at a British college or university during which a teacher discusses a particular subject with one student or with a small group of students: · Small group tutorials are used to discuss problems which come up in lectures.· Oxford's one-to-one tutorials are an effective but also costly way of teaching.
to punish someone to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done something wrong, for example by putting them in prison, or making them do something that they do not want to do: · She was suspended while the school decided how to punish her.punish somebody for (doing) something: · His parents punished him for disobedience.· The U.S. threatened to take away trading privileges as a way to punish the country for human rights violations.· Two instructors were punished for harassing female students.
to make someone pay money as a punishment: · Inspectors have the power to fine any passenger travelling without a ticket.be fined £10/$100 etc: · She was fined $300 for reckless driving.fine somebody for (doing) something: · One player was fined for fighting during the game.· The state fined the company for safety violations.
to send someone to prison for a particular period of time: · Because of the serious nature of the crime, the judge gave him 20 years.give sb 6 years/10 months etc for: · After a long trial she was given a life sentence for the bombings.
if a judge sentences a criminal, he or she gives them an official punishment, usually sending them to prison for a period of time: sentence somebody for something: · Brown will be sentenced for a series of sexual assaults.sentence somebody to 20 years/life imprisonment etc: · The judge sentenced Margolis to a year in prison.sentence somebody to 20 years/life imprisonment etc for something: · Some countries will sentence you to seven or more years in prison for drug offences.sentence somebody to death: · 60 prisoners have been sentenced to death in political trials.
to punish someone because you want to make sure that they will not behave badly again: · I hope a night in the cells has taught you a lesson.· He was treating me badly, so I left - I just wanted to teach him a lesson.
informal to do something unpleasant to someone as a way of punishing them for something bad they have done to you or someone you know: · If I ever find out who did this, I'll make them pay!make sb pay for: · I wanted to make my father pay for his betrayal.· The prosecution asked jurors to make Mr. Sanderson pay for what he did.
also penalise British to officially punish someone, especially by taking away their right to do something or by limiting their freedom in some way: · New laws will penalize firms that continue to pollute the environment.· It is unfair that the whole class should be penalized because of the bad behaviour of a few students.penalize somebody for (doing) something: · A referee may penalise players for wasting time.· The House of Representatives voted to penalize him for ethics violations.
to punish someone who has broken the rules of an organization that they belong to or work for: · Officers are expected to discipline soldiers who do not keep their uniforms in good condition.be disciplined: · Anyone who is regularly late for work is likely to be disciplined or dismissed.· Even when Morton and Collins started fighting on the field, neither player was disciplined.
intended as a punishment: punitive action/measure/sanctions etc: · Government forces immediately took punitive action against the rebels.· The sanctions were a punitive measure used to try to force South Africa to reject apartheid.punitive damages (=money that a person or company has to pay to someone they have harmed - used in legal contexts): · The company was ordered to pay punitive damages in a sex discrimination case.
: disciplinary action/measures/charges etc actions etc that are intended to punish someone for breaking a rule or law or to force them to obey rules: · The committee members promised that appropriate disciplinary measures would be taken against the offenders.· So far, not a single person has faced prosecution or disciplinary action over the case.
to study something at school, university etc to learn about a subject by reading books, going to classes etc: · It's difficult to study when the weather's so hot.· I've been studying English for six years now.· His parents sent him to Moscow to study physics, chemistry, and mathematics.· If you study hard, you'll be able to get into a good university.study to be something: · She's at business school, studying to be an accountant.study under (=receive lessons from a famous teacher): · Nicoll was himself a noted psychologist and studied under Jung in Zurich.
to study a subject - use this to talk about subjects that you choose to study at school, college, university etc: · What classes are you taking next semester?· In my final year, I decided to take English, French, and economics.· All freshmen have to take at least one composition course.
British informal to study a particular subject at school or university: · I can't decide whether to do German or Spanish next year.· Did you do computing at school?do a course: · Why not do a language course at your local college?
American to study something as your main subject at a college or university: · What are you majoring in?· Diane majored in psychology at the University of Washington.
American if you minor in a subject, it is the second most important subject you study at a college or university: · I'm planning to study computer science, but I still might minor in English.
also have lessons British to pay for lessons from a teacher in order to study a subject or skill in your free time: · My mother wants me to take violin lessons.· I'm having Spanish lessons after work.take lessons in: · Students at the school can even take lessons in golf.
British formal to study a subject at university: · Oliver is reading philosophy at Oxford.· She went on to read medicine at Edinburgh.
British an offer or opportunity to study as a student at a particular school, college, or university: · Studies show that students from wealthier backgrounds are more likely to be offered places at high-achieving schools.have/get a place (at): · Jenny has a place to study law at Exeter this year.· If I get a place at Manchester, I'll take it.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meanings 1 & 2verbs elocution lessons Make sure you put the baby’s diaper on before you start feeding her. I learned this lesson the hard way. the lessons learned in the Gulf War Losing money in this way taught young Jones a salutary lesson.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· He started taking piano lessons at age four.
· I have swimming lessons on Friday.
(also attend a lesson formal)· I have to go to my French lesson now.
(=teach lessons)· She made a living giving private lessons in English.
· The teachers spend a long time preparing their lessons.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + lesson· I've got a history lesson this afternoon.
· Dad said he'd pay for driving lessons as my birthday present.
· I'd just started classical guitar lessons.
(=a lesson specially for one person rather than for a class)· He gave private lessons in mathematics at the weekends.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· I had basic cookery lessons at school.
(=in which you are taught to drive)· Jane is having driving lessons.
elocution lessons· I'm thinking of taking golf lessons.
Make sure you put the baby’s diaper on before you start feeding her. I learned this lesson the hard way. the lessons learned in the Gulf War· I started having piano lessons.
Losing money in this way taught young Jones a salutary lesson.· It had been a hard lesson for some of them.· They leave with nothing but a hard lesson.· As the only country with first-hand experience of modern missile warfare at sea Britain will benefit from its hard learned lesson.· But catastrophe produces spectacle; this is the hard lesson imparted by California history and geology.· The hard and expensive lesson he learnt from the sorry business was that the game could do without him.
· For senior management an important lesson was the trade unions' capacity to absorb change and to become its agents.· There is an important lesson to be learned here-a lesson in good program management.· Their preservation could have an important lesson for nuclear waste storage.· But solving the mystery also teaches some important lessons about the era ahead.· Hon. Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department.· They learned important lessons about survival from the adversity they had faced.· The most important lesson we can learn from our present educational disarray is that education is for everybody.· When a product or service takes off unexpectedly, there are inevitably important lessons to be learned.
· Individual singing lessons are also available, and a limited number of pupils can receive piano lessons at School.· When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.· She listened, nodded, and then told me very shyly that all her life she had wanted to take piano lessons.· Though the whole family sang, he prospered during the piano lessons he received as a birthday present at age 6.· Wilson began piano lessons at age 9 and studied the standard classical repertoire of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.· Maybe if I had been sent to piano lessons instead of being sent out to play, I'd see things different.· The children, she said, had piano lessons.
· It was a salutary lesson for me on risking rejection and on my perceived notions of status.· Experience of reality provides the salutary lesson.· Listening to those criticisms has taught me a salutary and humbling lesson.· More simple salutary lessons were being learned in Britain too.· It is extremely disconcerting, and the Madness debate provided a salutary lesson for Morrissey, as well as ourselves.
· A wide variety of valuable lessons is learned at such times when the pupils strengthen their ties with the School Community.· He was going to teach me one of his valuable lessons.· Indeed, it is from our failures that we learn our most valuable lessons.· This teaches the hearer a valuable lesson: dealing in symbols is safe when compared with acting on the real thing.· Competitive sport teaches valuable lessons which last for life.· Watching them work, Truc and I learned several valuable lessons.· For the undertaking m a dominant position, valuable lessons are to be learned from these examples.· A number of them learned valuable lessons from difficult bosses-some even from bad bosses.
NOUN· So that was why I had all those art lessons!· Did anyone know of some one who gave art lessons?· His hobby is playing golf and he designed his entry during art lessons at school.· But these boys do not have swim team or baseball or sports camp or art lessons or a list of lawn-mowing clients.· It must have shown up in art lessons first.· I did have one moment of triumph during that year of art lessons.· He designed his jumper with a regular pattern of rugby posts and a rugby ball in his extra art lessons at school.· At last, the actual art lesson began.
· In the middle of a History lesson we heard the good news.· This two-hour concert was just a competent, well-structured history lesson by the king of the Armani blues.· But Brion brings more than history lessons.· This is not the time to talk of the end of history - more a time for some good history lessons.· A little history lesson could be calming, too.· In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson.· A history lesson would be useful.
· In addition at the London course Music lessons are available at an additional £5 per year.· They went to cultural events, they took music lessons.· We are also offering group music lessons for a limited number of people.· Susan meant to give music lessons, but she can't till she's better.· Example C combines a sequence of four planned 30-minute music lessons with two longer music inputs in the integrated project.· He must have music lessons at once.· After this, he could be hastily driven to a music lesson, followed by a painting or a dancing lesson.
· It's an object lesson for all feature writers.· She was spared the trauma of dinner, the object lesson in human dignity, and the smoke of Revolution.· The series is an object lesson in, among many other qualities, the differences of gaze.· The highly sophisticated broadcasting industry offers an object lesson in the inadequacy of current standards of measuring public behavior.· The regimented society of social insects such as ants and bees is an object lesson in order and organization.· His experience was an object lesson for young men who are considering a career in government.· And the ride is an object lesson in suppleness and elimination of vibration.· The parched remnants were, for Roosevelt, a stark object lesson in the need for animal protection.
· Librarians have expertise to offer here and teachers are capitalising on it, often incorporating these elements in their lesson plans.· The primary lesson plan is that learning should be fun, and that nostalgia rocks.· The manual includes sample lesson plans, as well as guidelines on preparing and evaluating writing workshops.· The district has also built an electronic resource for lesson plans.· A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans.· Teachers may create lesson plans, books, and other teaching materials that they wish to copyright.· Teacher's Book, outlining the methodology and providing detailed lesson plans.
· We also need to encourage children to use their imaginations in science lessons.· A month later I turned the board for a science lesson and it cracked suddenly and started to collapse all over.· In the classroom, teachers could choose tricks to add entertainment to science lessons.· They would be awakened before daybreak and by eight had already had prayers and a math or science lesson.· They might be asked to contribute information to a careers programme, or technical expertise to a science lesson.· The study sought to shed light on two questions: How do pupils experience school science lessons?· They complained that they were often bored by repeating the same topics during their 11 years of compulsory science lessons.· What kind of things can help to make science lessons come alive?
VERB· At first I observed, then began to take some lessons.· After passing the written test, Solomon began his driving lessons.· I did not hope for very much when I began my Alexander lessons, because of my past experiences.· When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.· Wilson began piano lessons at age 9 and studied the standard classical repertoire of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.· The teacher directs the latecomers to some seats in the front, and he begins the lesson.· Jessica began taking flying lessons from Reid four months ago.
· For if we accept the possibility of human progress, then we must accept and draw on the lessons of the past.· As such, it is intended to draw wider lessons about the workings of pressure groups in modern Britain.· The next morning, he smiled at me and left for work without mentioning my drawing lessons.· Hon. Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department.· The administration drew two lessons from the experience.· It required no elaborate analysis to draw the lesson: economic grievances could only be redressed by achieving political change.· Dole appeared to be drawing a lesson from the last four presidential candidates who ousted the opposition party from the White House.
· This time he did not mention giving lessons but said it would be lovely to be able to play to me.· On the other hand, who was I to give Leanne lessons?· When schools shut for lack of fuel in the winter, they gave private lessons to the richer peasants' children.· In a phone booth, Celine gives Robert lessons in sounding demanding and ruthless in his ransom calls to Naville.· In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson.· We made it sound as if we were giving sewing lessons after hours.· To ensure continuity, homework should be given after each lesson.· Some guys make $ 300-$ 500 per hour for a lesson and give 4-8 lessons a day.
· Should we beat them or lock them up until they learn their lessons?· There is an important lesson to be learned here-a lesson in good program management.· You've learned the same lessons in different ways, which are somehow the same.· They learned important lessons about survival from the adversity they had faced.· But does not this suggest that we have only to learn the same lesson over again?· They had learned an essential lesson about the intricate connection between individual and group performance.· There is still a key opportunity for local authorities to learn the lessons from the national parliamentary mechanisms for scrutiny and accountability.· We had a shot or two, but we learned our lesson.
· He learnt the lesson well, and has since produced an impressive and highly original body of work.· But Bush has learnt a second lesson from Clinton.· We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt.· Trent had learnt this lesson well in his fight against it.· The first hours of Martial Law themselves demonstrated that the regime had learnt the lessons of the 1970s.· Businessmen called for economies, but Roosevelt had learnt the lesson of 1929.· They claim, however, that the Bank has learnt lessons as a result of the experience.
· Many schools would like to offer drama lessons, but often there is no-one on the staff to take them.· Mrs Watt offered lessons in music, and manual training was available anywhere on the campus.· A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans.· But recollection also offers lessons that may guide future military decisions.· And although this research is industry-specific, the hope is that it offers insights and design lessons applicable in many areas.· Its significance transcends the boundaries of the United States, for it offers a lesson and example to peoples throughout the world.· It offers a profound lesson about our entire relationship to nature.· The highly sophisticated broadcasting industry offers an object lesson in the inadequacy of current standards of measuring public behavior.
· Clear, easy-to-follow teaching aids Each Resource Book provides clear, easy-to-follow lesson menus for you to use in class.· This kind of follow-through provides children with important lessons in reading strategies.· Those who need to know should be provided with the lessons learned as soon as possible.· Playing coevolutionary games in computers has provided other lessons.· Experience of reality provides the salutary lesson.· It brightens the utilitarian facade of our modern building and provides material for lessons.· And although the particulars of their initiatives might differ, the underlying causes of success or failure will provide lessons learned.
· The minister read a lesson from Job, chapter 2.· Diana would never shout out answers in class or volunteer to read the lessons at assembly.· I hope will be happy to read the first lesson.
· Some people his grandmother knew had a little girl who wanted to learn the flute and Tom started giving her lessons.· There is also the question of when to start lessons.· Margaret had started driving lessons, was making progress with the solicitor, and spending the occasional evening with friends.· Each time I started a Hebrew lesson, we were interrupted.· Gina did indeed start giving lessons of a kind.· New timetables at four Merseyside schools mean pupils start lessons at 8.30 and go home at 1.50 with just one half-hour break.· Born and raised in Tokyo, Komuro started violin lessons at age 3 and began learning keyboards in elementary school.· I started giving lessons to more pupils, which sometimes involved cycling to houses far out in the country side.
· Incidentally, brother Louis was then taking lessons on the pianoforte.· They included taking lessons for her advanced driving test, watercolour painting and gardening.· When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.· She escaped with some bruises but was adamant that she would never take lessons from me again.· But they have seen the underbelly of working motherhood, and I think they have taken in all its lessons.· He would dearly like to spend a month taking lessons from him, starting now: would that be possible?· She has taken Singing lessons at Dakshini Academy in Calcutta.
· Her Committee would teach him a lesson, she promised herself venomously, as she powdered her face.· In the hotel lobby she continues to teach her own hard-learned lessons.· He would teach her a lesson.· Competitive sport teaches valuable lessons which last for life.· The risk of inflation teaches us another lesson: Do not play it too safe.· L teacher who has taught lots of lessons with the unit.· A father must always teach his son the lessons he has learned.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► somebody has learned their lesson
1learning a skill a period of time in which someone is taught a particular skill, for example how to play a musical instrument or drive a car: - And the ride is an object lesson in suppleness and elimination of vibration.
- His experience was an object lesson for young men who are considering a career in government.
- It's an object lesson for all feature writers.
- She was spared the trauma of dinner, the object lesson in human dignity, and the smoke of Revolution.
- The highly sophisticated broadcasting industry offers an object lesson in the inadequacy of current standards of measuring public behavior.
- The regimented society of social insects such as ants and bees is an object lesson in order and organization.
- The series is an object lesson in, among many other qualities, the differences of gaze.
- There had to be an object lesson or two.
- He was treating me badly, so I left - I just wanted to teach him a lesson.
- I hope a night in the cells has taught you a lesson.
- They say they beat Scott up to teach him a lesson.
- A japanese Brother and Sister A japanese myth teaches a similar lesson to that of Lilith.
- He would teach her a lesson.
- It was the old mountain teaching another brutal lesson, that the mountain and its weather does not forgive a mistake.
- The commander, as an al-Qadhadhfa and ally of the Magharba, should teach them a lesson.
- The desire to teach the experts a lesson took on manic proportions.
- The risk of inflation teaches us another lesson: Do not play it too safe.
- They need to be taught a lesson!
piano lessonshave/take lessons She’s started taking driving lessons.lesson in/on lessons in First Aid lessons in road safety2in school British English a period of time in which school students are taught a particular subject SYN class American English: Lessons start at 9 o'clock.French/physics/art etc lesson I’ve got a double maths lesson next.lesson in/on Andrew gives private lessons in Spanish.3experience something that provides experience or information that you can learn from and uselearn a lesson (=gain useful experience or information) There were important lessons to be learned from these discoveries. The government has failed to learn the lessons of history.lesson to The men’s courage and faith is a lesson to us all. Now let that be a lesson to you all (=be careful to avoid having the same bad experience again). Her fate should be a salutary lesson (=one that teaches or warns you about something).4book a part of a book that is used for learning a particular subject, especially in school: Turn to lesson 25.5church a short piece that is read from the Bible during a religious ceremony → somebody has learned their lesson at learn(5), → teach somebody a lesson at teach(6)COLLOCATIONS– Meanings 1 & 2verbstake lessons· He started taking piano lessons at age four.have lessons· I have swimming lessons on Friday.go to a lesson (also attend a lesson formal)· I have to go to my French lesson now.give lessons (=teach lessons)· She made a living giving private lessons in English.prepare a lesson· The teachers spend a long time preparing their lessons.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + lessona history/physics/maths etc lesson· I've got a history lesson this afternoon.a driving/swimming etc lesson· Dad said he'd pay for driving lessons as my birthday present.a piano/guitar etc lesson· I'd just started classical guitar lessons.a private lesson (=a lesson specially for one person rather than for a class)· He gave private lessons in mathematics at the weekends.