lesson

noun

• 1a period of learning or teaching:an advanced lesson in maths a driving lesson
• a thing learned or to be learned by a pupil: he had a facility for languages and had learned his lessons well
• a thing learned by experience:lessons should have been learned from two similar collisions
• an experience or event that serves as a warning or encouragement:let that be a lesson to you!

• 2a passage from the Bible read aloud during a church service, especially either of two readings at morning and evening prayer in the Anglican Church: he went up to read the first lesson

verb

• instruct or teach (someone): [with object and clause]:Metaneone had beforehand lessoned him what he should say
• rebuke (someone): Oedipus has been lessoned to humility before the throne of Zeus