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life's lesson

life's lesson is the alternative form of life lesson.

Meaning of life lesson

Noun

life lesson (plural life lessons)

  1. (set phrase) Advice from another person or information derived from experience that provides valuable long-term guidance for one's future decisions and conduct in life.
    • The mother . . . had high views for her daughter. . . . [A]bove them stood many millionaire families, living in palace-homes, and through her daughter she meant to rise into one of them. It mattered not for the personal quality of the scion of the house; he might be as coarse and common as his...1872, T. S. Arthur, chapter 1, in Cast Adrift

Forms of life's lesson

plurallife's lessons

Questions about life's lesson

What is life's lesson the alternative form of?
Life's lesson is the alternative form of life lesson.

Words near life's lesson in the dictionary

  1. life zone
  2. life zones
  3. life's a bitch
  4. life's a bitch and then you die
  5. life's a bitch, and then you die
  6. life's lesson
  7. life's too short
  8. life's work
  9. life's works
  10. life, prosperity, health
  11. life-affirming

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