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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
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stint
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in ?stintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-Germanic *stuntijan? and Proto-Germanic *stintan? (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
Verb
stint (third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted)
- (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
- 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?
- We maun have pain that never shall stint.
- 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?
- (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- Synonym: skimp
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
- 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
- I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produ?tion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants
- 1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
- She stints them in their meals.
- 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse, in the Stable and the Field
- The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
- 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse, in the Stable and the Field
Translations
Noun
stint (plural stints)
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
- His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.
Noun
stint (plural stints)
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
stint (plural stints)
- Misspelling of stent (medical device).
Anagrams
- 'tisn't, it'sn't, tints
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
- stunt
- stänt
- stejnt
- stönt
- stant
Etymology
Related to stött (“short,”) stynt (“to shorten.”)
Noun
stint f (definite & vocative stinta, vocative plural stinte)
- A girl, i.e. an unmarried woman.
Declension
Synonyms
- gänt
- täus
Derived terms
- gamstint
- gjetarstint
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