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session
English
Etymology
From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessi? (“a sitting”), from sede? (“sit”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
- Homophone: cession
Noun
session (plural sessions)
- A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
- A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.
- (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
- (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien
- But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (music) Ellipsis of jam session
- (education) An academic term.
Hyponyms
- bull session
Derived terms
- parasession
- sessionize
- sessionless
- session musician
- session-replicated
Related terms
Translations
Verb
session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)
- (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
Anagrams
- essoins, osseins
Finnish
Noun
session
- Genitive singular form of sessio.
French
Etymology
From Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?.sj??/
Noun
session f (plural sessions)
- session, period
- (computing) session
Related terms
- seoir
Further reading
- “session” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.
Noun
session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)
- sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)
Descendants
- French: session
- ? Middle English: session
- English: session
session From the web:
- what session are we in
- what session are we in forex
- what session of congress are we in right now
- what session means
- what season is it
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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
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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