(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a fixed period of time when people are taught about a particular subject or taught how to do something.
It would be his last French ~ for months...
Johanna took piano ~s.
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2.
You use ~ to refer to an experience which acts as a warning to you or an example from which you should learn.
There’s still one ~ to be learned from the crisis–we all need to better understand the thinking of the other side.
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If you say that you are going to teach someone a ~, you mean that you are going to punish them for something that they have done so that they do not do it again.
PHRASE: V inflects