- lesson
- n1. assignment, homework, exercise, practice, Inf. day's ration; instruction, teaching, studies; lecture, reading, recitation; example, theorem, axiom, truth, proof, dogma; portion, stint, job, duty, obligation, charge, responsibility.2. didacticism, didactive narrative, preachings, preachment; parable, apologue, essay, moral fable, allegory; sermon, prelection, discourse; precept, maxim, advice, saying, wise saying, proverb, adage, aphorism, epigram, profound saying, pithy saying.3. correction, lecture, curtain lecture; warning, a word to the wise, a flea in the ear, notification; hint, sharp hint, caution, caveat, admonition, threat; rap on the knuckles, reproof, chiding, reproval, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, remonstrance, expostulation; scolding, taking to task, talking-to, Sl. call-down; piece of one's mind, tongue-lashing, castigation, Inf. bawling out, upbraiding, Inf. raking over coals, Inf. trimming, Inf. roasting, Inf. slam, Inf. slap; denunciation, censure, chastisement, punishment.4.Ail Ecclesiastical. lection, pericope, reading, daily reading, text, Rom. Cath. Ch. epistle.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.