Another word for lesson

What is another word for Lesson?

• example

  deed, warn

• lecture

  class, exercise

• moral

  example, meaning

• reading

  Bible reading, exercise

• exercise

  event, course

• class

  teaching, occupation

• teaching

  education, class

• homework

  undertaking, exercise

• warning

  example, warn

• assignment

  exercise, event

• message

  deed, example

• period

  class, information taught

• study

  education, course

• admonition

  communication, solemn moral talk

• instruction

  speech, education

• drill

  exercise, event

• sermon

  solemn moral talk

• object lesson

• recitation

  event, information taught

• homily

  solemn moral talk

• deterrent

  example, communication

• exemplar

  example, communication

• model

  deed, communication

• schooling

  education, class

• task

  information taught

• precept

  communication, message

• education

  instruction, information taught

• tutoring

  education, class

• session

• rebuke

  punishment

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• n.

  •
  • afterword,
  • blurb,
  • back,
  • binding,
  • acknowledgments,
  • drill,
  • book,
  • appendix,
  • addendum,
  • body,
  • recitation,
  • artwork.
  •
  • advanced,
  • flashcard,
  • insight,
  • discovery,
  • hothouse,
  • exploratory,
  • acquisition,
  • assimilation.
  •
  • warn.
  •
  • amen,
  • celebrate,
  • baptize,
  • benediction,
  • anthem,
  • baptism,
  • the Book of Common Prayer,
  • baptise,
  • catechism.
  •
  • classroom,
  • direct method,
  • edutainment,
  • CBI,
  • dialog,
  • field trip,
  • home schooling,
  • dialogue,
  • blended learning.
  •
  • retribution,
  • a slap on the wrist,
  • reprisal.

  • act (noun)

  • lesson.

  • advice (noun)

  • counsel,
  • bum steer,
  • information,
  • dissuasion,
  • encouragement,
  • dissuasions,
  • aid,
  • word to the wise,
  • guidance,
  • tip,
  • tipoff,
  • advisement,
  • tidings,
  • steer,
  • telltales,
  • injunction,
  • in formation,
  • tip-off,
  • forewarning,
  • persuasion,
  • consultation,
  • directions,
  • tip off,
  • inputs,
  • word,
  • lessons,
  • news,
  • caution,
  • prescription,
  • proposition,
  • word to wise,
  • view,
  • charge,
  • advocacy,
  • proposal,
  • input,
  • opinion,
  • help,
  • two cents’ worth,
  • recommendation,
  • suggestion,
  • telltale,
  • exhortation.

  • allocution (noun)

  • pre-lection,
  • pre lection,
  • pre-lections,
  • pre lections.

  • cautionary tale (noun)

  • hint,
  • omen,
  • advisory,
  • red flag,
  • caveat,
  • sign of things to come.

  • example (noun)

  • case in point,
  • ideal,
  • original,
  • citation,
  • excuse,
  • object,
  • sampling,
  • case,
  • part,
  • paragon,
  • standard,
  • archetype,
  • pattern,
  • case history,
  • representation,
  • precedent,
  • sample,
  • prototype,
  • stereotype,
  • specimen,
  • symbol,
  • copy,
  • quotation,
  • illustration.

  • exercise (noun)

  • constitutional,
  • exertion,
  • operation,
  • examination,
  • exercising,
  • occupation,
  • performance,
  • drilling,
  • act,
  • training,
  • toil,
  • discipline,
  • workout,
  • theme,
  • problem,
  • daily dozen,
  • action,
  • labor,
  • activity,
  • discharge,
  • pursuit,
  • movement.

  • instruction (noun)

  • enlightenment,
  • tuition,
  • grounding,
  • direction,
  • apprenticeship,
  • preparation,
  • edification.

  • lesson (noun)

  • chiding,
  • lecture,
  • moral,
  • coaching,
  • homework,
  • model,
  • test,
  • censure,
  • practice,
  • notice,
  • period,
  • assignment,
  • precept,
  • chalk talk,
  • scolding,
  • quiz,
  • task,
  • reproof,
  • noble action,
  • Tutoring,
  • helpful word,
  • deterrent,
  • schooling,
  • message.

  • object lesson (noun)

  • practical demonstration,
  • visible evidence,
  • concrete illustration.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • exemplification,
  • word of advice,
  • object lesson,
  • objurgations,
  • deterrent example,
  • messages,
  • telling-off,
  • bawling-out,
  • pedagogy,
  • hard times,
  • paradigm,
  • enough said,
  • calisthenics,
  • slap the face,
  • warm-ups,
  • book-learning,
  • allocution,
  • significance,
  • a few words of wisdom,
  • signification,
  • wake-up calls,
  • academic work,
  • gyms,
  • pondering,
  • study,
  • event,
  • Re-presentation,
  • education,
  • reading,
  • book learning,
  • undertaking,
  • sermon,
  • parable,
  • example,
  • slap in the face,
  • for instance,
  • exemplar,
  • perusal,
  • deed,
  • admonition,
  • warm up,
  • advice,
  • rebuke,
  • cautionary tale,
  • putdown,
  • drillings,
  • chidings,
  • Re-search,
  • advisories,
  • samplings,
  • wake-up call,
  • hard time,
  • event illustrating a hazard,
  • earful,
  • instruction,
  • exemplifications,
  • kick in teeth,
  • monition,
  • caution light,
  • chewing-out,
  • import,
  • objurgation,
  • slap in face,
  • warning,
  • reproval,
  • kind of thing,
  • kick in the teeth,
  • exercise,
  • teaching,
  • portent,
  • refusal,
  • meaning,
  • ponderings,
  • tutelage,
  • gym,
  • school assignment,
  • talking-to,
  • schoolwork,
  • warm-up.

  • parable (noun)

  • tale,
  • legend.

  • reading (noun)

  • grasp,
  • translation,
  • erudition,
  • account,
  • inspection,
  • construction,
  • scholarship,
  • paraphrase,
  • rendition,
  • commentary,
  • understanding,
  • rendering,
  • version,
  • impression,
  • conception,
  • scrutiny,
  • treatment,
  • review,
  • knowledge.

  • rebuke (noun)

  • beratings,
  • re buff,
  • chewing outs,
  • talking-tos,
  • tongue lashing,
  • bawling-outs,
  • bawlingout,
  • bawling outs,
  • tellingoff,
  • ex-postulations,
  • telling-offs,
  • dis-approval,
  • up braidings,
  • kick the teeth,
  • dis-approvals,
  • re buffs,
  • be-ratings,
  • be rating,
  • re-prehension,
  • re-prehensions,
  • bawlingouts,
  • re pulses,
  • slap face,
  • up braiding,
  • be-rating,
  • be ratings,
  • re-buffs,
  • upbraidings,
  • goingover,
  • reprovals,
  • chewing-outs,
  • re-monstrance,
  • chewingouts,
  • re monstrances,
  • tellingoffs,
  • up-braiding,
  • re prehensions,
  • tonguelashing,
  • ex postulation,
  • ex-postulation,
  • chewingout,
  • up-braidings,
  • re-monstrances,
  • re-pulses,
  • earfuls,
  • talkingtos,
  • kick teeth,
  • re monstrance,
  • re prehension,
  • dis approvals,
  • dis approval,
  • talking tos,
  • talkingto,
  • ex postulations,
  • telling offs,
  • dressingdown.

  • sermon (noun)

  • Sermons,
  • moralisms,
  • preachments,
  • moralism,
  • pastorals.

  • study (noun)

  • de bate,
  • re-flections,
  • de liberations,
  • crammings,
  • de-bates,
  • re searches,
  • de-liberation,
  • de-liberations,
  • de liberation,
  • de-bate,
  • re search,
  • re flections,
  • memorizings,
  • re-flection,
  • academic works,
  • de bates,
  • re flection.

  • tutelage (noun)

  • super-vision,
  • super-visions,
  • super visions.

  • warning (noun)

  • Soss,
  • handwriting on wall,
  • watch-it,
  • Maydays,
  • heads up,
  • fores,
  • foretoken,
  • foretokens.

• v.

  • chide (verb)

  • rate,
  • castigate,
  • admonish,
  • check,
  • flay,
  • reprove,
  • blame,
  • scold,
  • berate,
  • take down,
  • slap on the wrist,
  • reprehend,
  • condemn.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)

  • speech.

  • rebuke (verb)

  • climbing over,
  • tare apart,
  • jumping down one throat,
  • climbs all over,
  • climbs over,
  • taking task,
  • carps on,
  • tears apart,
  • jumped down ones throat,
  • sits on,
  • jump down ones throat,
  • carped on,
  • sate on,
  • leaned on,
  • took to task,
  • jumping down ones throat,
  • took task,
  • went after,
  • jumped down one’s throat,
  • jumps down one’s throat,
  • climbing all over,
  • takes to task,
  • take task,
  • takes task,
  • sounds off,
  • taking to task,
  • jumping on,
  • climbed all over,
  • jumps down ones throat,
  • jumps on,
  • jumping down one’s throat,
  • sounding off,
  • climbed over,
  • carping on,
  • jumps down throat,
  • jumping down throat,
  • jumps down one throat,
  • jumped down throat,
  • jumped down one throat,
  • lay in to,
  • leans on,
  • leant on,
  • jump down one throat.

  • reprimand (verb)

  • gave piece one’s mind,
  • giving the dickens,
  • gives piece of one mind,
  • gives piece ones mind,
  • gave piece mind,
  • giving piece one’s mind,
  • giving piece ones mind,
  • giving dickens,
  • lowers boom,
  • give dickens,
  • lights into,
  • give piece ones mind,
  • lowering boom,
  • gave piece of mind,
  • lowered the boom,
  • lit in to,
  • gave the dickens,
  • gave dickens,
  • gives piece one mind,
  • lighted in to,
  • give piece one’s mind,
  • gives piece one’s mind,
  • gave piece of ones mind,
  • lighted into,
  • gives the dickens,
  • giving piece one mind,
  • giving piece mind,
  • gave piece of one’s mind,
  • lowering the boom,
  • gave piece ones mind,
  • lighting in to,
  • give piece one mind,
  • give piece of one mind,
  • lights in to,
  • lowers the boom,
  • lighting into,
  • give piece of ones mind,
  • giving piece of one mind,
  • giving piece of ones mind,
  • giving piece of mind,
  • gives piece mind,
  • gives piece of ones mind,
  • gives piece of mind,
  • giving piece of one’s mind,
  • light in to,
  • gives dickens,
  • lit into,
  • gives piece of one’s mind,
  • gave piece one mind,
  • gave piece of one mind,
  • lowered boom,
  • give piece mind.

  • reproach (verb)

  • called task,
  • calling task,
  • calls task,
  • de famed,
  • dis-crediting,
  • gives the devil,
  • dis-credit,
  • de fames,
  • called to task,
  • gave comeuppance,
  • gives devil,
  • de-faming,
  • dis credited,
  • gave the devil,
  • giving the devil,
  • calls to task,
  • de-fames,
  • call task,
  • calling to task,
  • give devil,
  • de-famed,
  • de faming,
  • gives comeuppance,
  • giving devil,
  • dis credit,
  • dis-credits,
  • de fame,
  • dis-credited,
  • dis crediting,
  • de-fame,
  • giving comeuppance,
  • gave devil,
  • dis credits.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • leniency,
  • school lunch,
  • free period,
  • after-school,
  • playtime,
  • recess,
  • comeuppance,
  • study hall,
  • lights-out,
  • penalty,
  • half-day,
  • extended school,
  • school night,
  • school day.
  •
  • payment,
  • punishment,
  • assembly.
  •
  • timetable,
  • class.
  •
  • school,
  • judgment.
  •
  • correction.

  • Other relevant words:

  • monish,
  • tell off,
  • upbraid,
  • jawboned,
  • laying on,
  • lower the boom,
  • light into,
  • Reamed,
  • call to task,
  • lean on,
  • give the dickens,
  • Reaming,
  • speak to,
  • give piece of mind,
  • lower boom,
  • climb all over,
  • jawbone,
  • take down a peg,
  • leaning on,
  • jump on,
  • give piece of one’s mind,
  • tore apart,
  • spoke to,
  • speaking to,
  • take to task,
  • give a hard time,
  • sit on,
  • carp on,
  • torn apart,
  • chide,
  • reprimand,
  • tear apart,
  • laid on,
  • talk to,
  • exprobate,
  • slap on wrist,
  • jawbones,
  • jump down one’s throat,
  • go after,
  • reproach,
  • Lessoning,
  • give the devil,
  • slap wrist,
  • tearing apart,
  • find fault,
  • sound off,
  • talking to,
  • lay on,
  • call down,
  • jawboning,
  • calling down,
  • call on the carpet,
  • jumped on,
  • Lessoned,
  • climb over,
  • tick off,
  • jump down throat,
  • give comeuppance,
  • ticked off,
  • sitting on.

  • research

  • seminar.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • chastise,
  • dissertation,
  • skull session,
  • restrain,
  • civilize,
  • prediction,
  • punish,
  • point,
  • paper,
  • apophthegm,
  • incept,
  • premonition,
  • talk,
  • chore,
  • adage,
  • address,
  • assess,
  • naked,
  • good example,
  • maxim,
  • instance,
  • treatise,
  • appraise,
  • instruct,
  • raw,
  • dressing down,
  • crude,
  • classe,
  • project,
  • criticize,
  • teach,
  • alarm,
  • proverb,
  • mission,
  • exhort,
  • lore,
  • harangue,
  • aphorism,
  • dictate,
  • interpret,
  • declamation,
  • morality,
  • spanking,
  • preaching,
  • slate,
  • cultivate,
  • unclothed,
  • chastisement,
  • castigation,
  • educate,
  • set task,
  • bald,
  • moralize,
  • job,
  • early warning,
  • exposition,
  • ultimatum,
  • chastening,
  • nude,
  • sore,
  • elucidation,
  • defenceless,
  • learning,
  • Betongue,
  • admonishment,
  • final notice,
  • supervise,
  • curtain lecture,
  • preach,
  • repeat by heart,
  • Dehortation,
  • indoctrinate,
  • final warning,
  • impose,
  • agree,
  • contraindication,
  • threat,
  • expound,
  • notification,
  • saw,
  • philippic,
  • do for,
  • unsheathed,
  • rating,
  • post,
  • sermonize,
  • reprobation,
  • commission,
  • repeat,
  • session,
  • Premonishment,
  • new,
  • slogan,
  • Remonstration,
  • disquisition,
  • o’clock,
  • manage,
  • doctrine,
  • preachment,
  • position,
  • course,
  • natural,
  • score,
  • obligation,
  • bring to book,
  • morality tale,
  • interpretation,
  • unfinished,
  • serve out,
  • pay,
  • marginal,
  • edify,
  • hold forth,
  • allegory,
  • epigram,
  • call to order,
  • unaided,
  • inform,
  • pay out,
  • discourse,
  • homily,
  • scanty,
  • correct,
  • train,
  • responsibility,
  • barren,
  • reprehension,
  • screed,
  • call to account,
  • fable,
  • enlighten,
  • open,
  • duty,
  • apothegm,
  • chasten,
  • advise,
  • explanation,
  • motto,
  • bleak,
  • administer,
  • discouragement,
  • appreciate,
  • upbraiding,
  • daily routine,
  • apologue,
  • moralization,
  • spare,
  • bring to account,
  • diatribe,
  • recital,
  • guide,
  • remonstrance,
  • evaluate.

How to use «Lesson» in context?

Paraphrases for Lesson:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Classes, courts.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    apprenticeship, class, doctrine, education, explanation, school, Learnt, Les, Oss, Curricula, Institutes.
  • Verb, past tense
    said.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    talking.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    connections.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    conclusion, experience, homework, schooling, teaching, thing, tuition, tutorial.
  • Verb, past tense
    learned, Lectured.

Homophones for Lesson:

• lausanne, lay eyes on, lexeme, lysosome, log on, louisianan, lycaena, logion, ligan, lucania, lycium, lexicon, legion, leishmania, locum, leucaena, leucoma, log in, louisiana, leucine, ligne, logician, luscinia, lissome, loosen, logania, loxoma, lockman, leucaemia, loose woman, lysine, lysinemia, liaison, lasagne, lycaeon, look on, leukoma, like sin, lyceum, lysogeny, locoism, Lushun, lacuna, laconia, lysozyme, lasagna, lissom, louisianian, lagune, logjam, logicism, liken, lagan, liquaemin, lycian, legin, leukaemia, lock in, lysin, luzon, lignum, lessen, laguna, logomania, lcm, leccinum, lagoon, logan, leukemia, legume, loose cannon, lichen, lucknow, laocoon, lesion, log-in, Lazy Susan, lignin, lakshmi, laconian, liegeman.

Holonyms for Lesson:

• n.

  • act
    teaching, class, educational activity, course of study, education, Didactics, course of instruction, instruction, course, pedagogy.

Hypernym for Lesson:

• n.

  • act
    dance lesson, reading assignment, history lesson, language lesson, example, golf lesson, tennis lesson, exercise, music lesson.

Hyponym for Lesson:

• n.

  • act
    pedagogy, schoolwork, teaching, instruction, school assignment.

as in assignment

something assigned to be read or studied

your lesson for tonight will be the chapter on chemical reactions

as in to teach

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field

would tirelessly lesson the children in proper manners

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