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lecture

[ lek-cher ]

noun

  1. a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject:

    a lecture on Picasso's paintings.

    Synonyms: , , ,

  2. a speech of warning or reproof as to conduct; a long, tedious reprimand.


verb (used without object)

lectured, lecturing.
  1. to give a lecture or series of lectures:

    He spent the year lecturing to various student groups.

verb (used with object)

lectured, lecturing.
  1. to deliver a lecture to or before; instruct by lectures.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. to rebuke or reprimand at some length:

    He lectured the child regularly but with little effect.

    Synonyms: ,

lecture

/ ˈɛʃə /

noun

  1. a discourse on a particular subject given or read to an audience
  2. the text of such a discourse
  3. a method of teaching by formal discourse
  4. a lengthy reprimand or scolding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to give or read a lecture (to an audience or class)
  2. tr to reprimand at length
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ·tܰ noun adjective verb prelectured prelecturing
  • ܲ·tܰ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lecture1

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Medieval Latin ŧū “a reading”; lection, -ure
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lecture1

C14: from Medieval Latin 𳦳ū reading, from legere to read
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Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, who weaves into the Wolff brothers’ rescue mission mostly to lecture them when they operate outside the law.

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Testifying in January 1985, Miller claimed that his supervisor’s “spiritual lecture” chilled him with the specter of eternal separation from his loved ones.

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Matt Walsh, meanwhile, lectures that a woman's place is as a "helpmate" and men don't — or shouldn't — want a partner who has money or a life of her own.

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The class was called “Democracy and Authoritarianism” and the lecture titled “How Modern Dictatorships Work … and Why they Persist.”

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In his 1938 lecture “The Coming Victory of Democracy,” Mann said, “Even America feels today that democracy is not an assured possession, that it has enemies, that it is threatened from within and from without.”

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