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explanation
English
Alternative forms
- explaination (misspelling or obsolete spelling)
Etymology
From Latin explanatio (“an explanation, interpretation”), from explanare (“explain”); see explain.
Morphologically explain +? -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??kspl??ne???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
explanation (countable and uncountable, plural explanations)
- The act or process of explaining.
- The explanation was long and drawn-out.
- Something that explains, makes understandable.
- An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found.
- A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
Synonyms
- (act or process of explaining): clarification; elucidation; elaboration; explaining; femsplaining (pej., particularly by a feminist to a man); mansplaining, mansplanation (pej., particularly by a man to a woman)
Related terms
- explain
- explanatory
- explicative
- explicator
- explicatory
Translations
Further reading
- explanation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- explanation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
explanation From the web:
- what explanation mean
- what does explanation mean
- what does explaining mean
lesson
English
Etymology
From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin l?cti?, l?cti?nem (“a reading”), from leg? (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?sn?/
- Homophone: lessen
- Hyphenation: les?son
- Rhymes: -?s?n
Noun
lesson (plural lessons)
- A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
- A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
- Something learned or to be learned.
- Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
- A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
- A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
- She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
- (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
Synonyms
- lear
- (religious reading): lection
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
lesson (third-person singular simple present lessons, present participle lessoning, simple past and past participle lessoned)
- To give a lesson to; to teach.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
- her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee / Made her companion, and her lessoned / In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
Translations
See also
- lesson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lesson in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Elsons, Slones, no less, nosels, nosles, solens
Middle English
Noun
lesson
- Alternative form of lessoun
lesson From the web:
- what lessons does scout learn
- what lesson did scrooge learn
- what lesson is bsf on this week
- what lessons does scout learn in chapter 3
- what does scout learn
- what is the most important lessons scout learns
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