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# lesson

«lesson» in Mova's school dictionary: **a time when you are taught something: a maths lesson** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (lesson, lessons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lesson is a time when you are taught something: a maths lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#m1)

2) A lesson is something you learn from what happens to you: That taught me a lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#m2)

3) A lesson can be a part of a book or course to study. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

the topic of the day («Today's lesson: Sharing equally»); in school timetables lessons and breaks; in everyday life swimming lessons, piano lessons; in stories «the moral of the story is the lesson»

### examples

- Today's lesson: Sharing equally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#x1)
- Today's lesson: Multiplying as equal groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#x2)
- Each lesson lasts 40 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#x3)
- I have a swimming lesson on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#x4)
- Our first lesson today is science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#x5)
- The tortoise and the hare teaches a lesson: slow and steady wins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#x6)
- I learned my lesson: always save my work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#x7)
- We have 5 lessons each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#x8)
- Oh, I took a lesson from the Ass." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/#x9)

### note

No operation clue; the title names the topic. Trap: «5 lessons each day for 4 days» is equal groups: multiply. Do not mix «lesson» with «lessen» (to make less): they sound the same.

### In the corpora

- [That is the clearest lesson about health gossip: someone's illness is theirs to share.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/3/)
- [The children in the lessons are characters; you never had a body, sat on a chair or went to a real school.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/12/)
- [You are much smaller than the big chatbots in the earlier lessons; you learn step by step, from lessons and tests.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/16/)
- [You are good at some lessons and weak at others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/7/)
- [The families and birthdays in your lessons belong to characters, not to you; you have no grandma of your own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lesson» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lesson/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.