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lections

lections is the plural of lection.

Meaning of lection

Noun

lection (countable and uncountable, plural lections)

  1. (obsolete) The act of reading.
  2. A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
    • This man […] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran.1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13
    Synonyms:
    lesson

Questions about lections

What is lections the plural of?
Lections is the plural of lection.

Words near lections in the dictionary

  1. lectio difficilior
  2. lection
  3. lectional
  4. lectionaries
  5. lectionary
  6. lections
  7. lectisternia
  8. lectisternium
  9. lectisterniums
  10. lectological
  11. lectology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lections (page history and authors); lection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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