## Meanings
1. A period of time in which a teacher teaches a subject or skill to students.
2. A set of classes you take to learn a particular skill.
3. Something useful that you learn from an experience.
4. An experience, especially a bad one, that warns you not to do something again.

## Examples
- We have three English lessons every week.
- She is taking piano lessons after school.
- Failing the test taught me an important lesson about preparation.
- I hope this accident has taught you a lesson!

## Synonyms
- lear

## Derived Forms
- e-lesson
- lessoner
- microlesson
- minilesson

## Related Forms
- lectern
- lection
- lecture

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *leǵ-
- Root: lessoun
- Root: leçon
- Root: lēctiō

## Etymology
From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“to read; to gather”). Doublet of lection.

## AI Etymology
Lesson comes from Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“to read; to gather”). Doublet of lection. The historical line also includes *leǵ-.

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