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life lessons

life lessons is the plural 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

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What is life lessons the plural of?
Life lessons is the plural of life lesson.

Words near life lessons in the dictionary

  1. life is too short
  2. life is what you make it
  3. life jacket
  4. life jackets
  5. life lesson
  6. life lessons
  7. life line
  8. life lines
  9. life list
  10. life lists
  11. life long

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