different between lesson vs morale

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)

1. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.

2. A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
3. Something learned or to be learned.

4. Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.

5. A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.

6. A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

   • She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
7. (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)

1. 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.

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

1. Alternative form of lessoun

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moral.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?????l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /m???æl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

morale (countable and uncountable, plural morales)

1. The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.

   After the layoffs morale was at an all time low, they were so dispirited nothing was getting done.

   Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

     Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.

Synonyms

• esprit de corps

Descendants

• ? Welsh: morâl

Translations

Anagrams

• Lamore, Melora, Merola

Esperanto

Etymology

From moralo +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?rale/
• Hyphenation: mo?ra?le
• Rhymes: -ale

Adverb

morale

1. morally

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.?al/

Noun

morale f (plural morales)

1. Ethics, morality

Adjective

morale

1. feminine singular of moral

Further reading

• “morale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin m?r?lem, form of m?r?lis, derived from m?s (“custom, way; law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?ra.le/
• Hyphenation: mo?rà?le

Adjective

morale (plural morali)

1. moral

Noun

morale f (plural morali)

1. morals
2. moral philosophy

morale m (plural morali)

1. morale

Related terms

• moralista
• moralistico
• moralità
• moralizzare
• moralizzatore
• moralmente

Anagrams

• malore
• molare
• molerà

Latin

Adjective

m?r?le

1. nominative neuter singular of m?r?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of m?r?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of m?r?lis

References

• morale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Polish

Etymology

From English morale, from French moral, from Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin m?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ra.l?/

Noun

morale n (indeclinable)

1. morale (capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
2. morals

Noun

morale

1. locative singular of mora?
2. vocative singular of mora?

Further reading

• morale in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• morale in Polish dictionaries at PWN