Lesson vs Caution - What's the difference?
lesson | caution | Synonyms |
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.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
(music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
To give a lesson to; to teach.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
* Byron
Precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.
* Shakespeare
A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
Security; guaranty; bail.
* Clarendon
One who gives rise to attention or astonishment.
A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
Lesson is a synonym of caution.
As nouns the difference between lesson and caution
is that lesson is a section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided while caution is precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.As verbs the difference between lesson and caution
is that lesson is to give a lesson to; to teach while caution is to warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.lesson
English
Noun
(en noun)- She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
Synonyms
* (l) * (religious reading) lectionDerived terms
* object lesson * private lessonsVerb
(en verb)- her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee / Made her companion, and her lessoned / In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
- To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, / Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
See also
* (wikipedia "lesson") *Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordscaution
English
Noun
(en noun)- In way of caution I must tell you.
- The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted.
- Oh, that boy, he's a caution ! He does make me laugh.
