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We can learn important lessons (= gain new understanding) from this disaster. She's arranged for her son to have swimming lessons. I'm going to karate lessons to learn how to defend myself. In today's lesson we're going to look at punctuation. It's always been my dream to have flying lessons.
A lesson is a fixed period of time when people are taught about a particular subject or taught how to do something. It would be his last French lesson for months. Johanna took piano lessons.
Lessons are generally taught in a classroom but may instead take place in a situated learning environment. In a wider sense, a lesson is an insight gained by a learner into previously unfamiliar subject-matter.
LESSON definition: a section into which a course of study is divided, especially a single, continuous session of formal instruction in a subject. See examples of lesson used in a sentence.