different between lesson vs tuition

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

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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.

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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

From Old French [Term?], from Latin tuiti? (“guard, protection, defense”), from tu?ri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: to?o?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /tu????n/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo?o?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /tju?????n/
• (India) enPR: tyo?o'sh?n, IPA^(key): /?tju???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

tuition (countable and uncountable, plural tuitions)

1. (Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).

   Synonym: (UK) tuition fees

2. The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
   1. (India) Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)

3. (archaic) Care, guardianship.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1 Scene 1:

     BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you—

     CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—

     DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.

     BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.

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Further reading

• tuition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tuition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.