lecture
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.
a speech of warning or reproof as to conduct; a long, tedious reprimand.
to give a lecture or series of lectures: He spent the year lecturing to various student groups.
to deliver a lecture to or before; instruct by lectures.
to rebuke or reprimand at some length: He lectured the child regularly but with little effect.
Origin of lecture
1Other words for lecture
Other words from lecture
- pre·lec·ture, noun, adjective, verb, pre·lec·tured, pre·lec·tur·ing.
- un·lec·tured, adjective
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How to use lecture in a sentence
It had been a year during which I had lectured at many colleges--mostly on education and civil liberties.
I have been blessed to work with her, to learn from her, to travel with her, and even when needed, to be lectured by her.
Libyan Activist Pays Tribute To Slain Spiritual Sister | Anonymous | June 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLisa Camooso Miller, a Republican strategist, lectured about “the new media reality.”
GOP Says ‘Hey Ladies’ But Little Else About Winning Women | David Freedlander | May 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe lectured the witness that the location of two ventilator fans was very important “because it will show you are lying.”
Pistorius’s Cross-Examination Could Have Been Grounds for a Mistrial in a U.S. Court | James D. Zirin | May 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs a grunt, he lectured a high-ranking officer in protest of Marines who attacked a Vietnamese child.
Crime Fighter’s Dilemma: My Country or My Family? | Moral Courage | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The Italian ecclesiastic Gavazzi, lectured at Quebec, and gave rise to a riot.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThe House is accustomed to a little hesitation in its novices and does not like to be lectured even by an Oxford don.
I sent a waiter for café-au-lait and a brioche and lectured her on the folly of going without proper sustenance.
Jaffery | William J. LockeI don't want to be lectured about going over to the Caxtons'.
Robert Hardy's Seven Days | Charles Monroe SheldonAnd my conundrum was, Had I lectured my curate, or had my curate lectured me?
My New Curate | P.A. Sheehan
British Dictionary definitions for lecture
/ (ˈlɛktʃə) /
a discourse on a particular subject given or read to an audience
the text of such a discourse
a method of teaching by formal discourse
a lengthy reprimand or scolding
to give or read a lecture (to an audience or class)
(tr) to reprimand at length
Origin of lecture
1Collins 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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