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lección

lesson

noun lek-SYOHN Less Common
People & Society Education

Origin: From Latin lectio ('a reading').

Also means

lecture

Usage Note

Lección is both a classroom lesson and a moral lesson learned from experience: una lección de vida ('a life lesson'). The plural changes spelling: lecciones (note the accent is dropped because the penultimate syllable is now stressed naturally). It is cognate with English 'lecture' (which in Spanish is conferencia), so be careful — dar una lección means 'to teach a lesson,' not necessarily 'to give a lecture.'

Examples

"La lección de hoy trata sobre el pasado."

Natural Translation

Today's lesson is about the past.

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