lecture
Plural: lectures
Noun
- a speech that is open to the public
- "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
- a lengthy rebuke
- "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"
- teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
- A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
- A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university.
- A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner.
- The act of reading.
Verb
Verb Forms: lectured, lecturing, lectures
- To deliver an educational speech; to reprimand someone verbally.
- deliver a lecture or talk
- "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
- censure severely or angrily
- To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
- To preach, to berate, to scold.
Examples
- During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.
- Emily's father lectured her about the importance of being home before midnight.
- I could LECTURE him on strategy, but sometimes a good play is just luck.
- I really don't want you to give me a lecture about my bad eating habits.
- Lecture notes are online.
- the lecture of Holy Scripture
- The professor lectured to two classes this morning.
- We will not have lecture tomorrow.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“I read, I recite”).
Synonyms
bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecturing, public lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, speech, take to task, talk, talking to, trounce
Scrabble Score: 9
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