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lecture
[ lek-cher ]
noun
- 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.
verb (used without object)
- to give a lecture or series of lectures:
He spent the year lecturing to various student groups.
lecture
/ ˈlɛktʃə /
noun
- 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
verb
- to give or read a lecture (to an audience or class)
- tr to reprimand at length
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Other Words From
- pre·lecture noun adjective verb prelectured prelecturing
- un·lectured adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lecture1
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Example Sentences
Nobody has to lecture me about how Sharpton has played racial politics in New York.
I, and many fellow men, know this because women say so—they write it, they lecture on it, they write books about it.
She hated sharing Georgie with his admirers, particularly on lecture tours in in North America.
The closing lecture also presents questions that Chomsky never answers—mainly one of alternatives.
He carried a chair onto the stage, sat down and repeated the lecture he uses whenever he hires an old-time musician.
I told her, when I wrote last, how I felt; and you never read such a lecture as she gave me in return.
However, he arrived in Aberdeen radiant, gave his lecture, and at the end was presented by Donald with a cheque for twenty pounds.
Lectures—Two ladies may attend a lecture, unaccompanied by a gentleman, without attracting attention.
In a room, a few miles out of London, I had just given a lecture to the members of a literary Society.
I have often had the pleasure of hearing Mme. de Mirbel lecture her and it was very comical.
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