life lesson
life lesson noun: advice from another person or information derived from experience that provides valuable long-term guidance for one's future decisions and conduct in life.
Noun
life lesson (plural life lessons)
- 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
- However warm her feelings for Elektra, Ms. Rhone said the five months since Mr. Morris's departure had been the roughest time in her career. . . . "This was a life lesson for me," she said. "I just wish it didn't have to happen the way it did."1995 November 27, Mark Landler, “Time Warner Wins a Tug-of-War”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Mar 2018
Forms of life lesson
| plural | life lessons |
|---|---|
| alternative form | life-lesson |
| alternative form | life's lesson |
Questions about life lesson
- What does life lesson mean?
- Life lesson means advice from another person or information derived from experience that provides valuable long-term guidance for one's future decisions and conduct in life.
- What part of speech is life lesson?
- Life lesson is a noun.
- What is the plural of life lesson?
- The plural of life lesson is life lessons.
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