Jump To:

• lect
  lect

  noun

  a distinct variety of a language, as a standard variety or a nonstandard regional dialect.
• lect.
  lect.

  abbreviation

  lecture.

lect

¹ American  

[lekt] / lɛkt /

noun

Linguistics.

1. a distinct variety of a language, as a standard variety or a nonstandard regional dialect.

   Without a central academy to govern usage, Standard English accepts more variation in grammar and lexicon than the standard lects of other languages.

---

lect. ² American  

abbreviation

1. lecture.

2. lecturer.

---

Etymology

Origin of lect

First recorded in 1970–75; (dia)lect ( def. )

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

lect lect.

I am not the first to ref lect on the roots of “Funes the Memorious” and its possible interpretations.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2012

For one thing, the non-struck automakers are no longer paying workers' U.A.W. dues directly to the union, and the U.A.W. finds it difficult to col lect from the boys.

From Time Magazine Archive

This yere grows from a business transaction; an' the effort tharfrom to improve on present conditions, institoot a reign of law, an' lect a jedge.

From Wolfville by Lewis, Alfred Henry

See our Sketch of a General History of Philosophy, 2d Series, vol. ii., lect.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

Now, how these have been unhinged and infringed, by the introduction and present establishment by law of that monster of the prerogative, enacted in Parliament anno 1661, the apologetic relation doth abundantly demonstrate, lect.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

Am., lect., ἀναγν., syn., men., from the Jesuits' Public Library, Lyons.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Am., lect., containing Luke xxiii. 38-50; xxiv. 46-53; John i. 30-iii.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Am., lect., with the Latin Vulgate version down to Luke iv.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Eus., lect., brought from the East by W. Ern. de Knobelsdorf, with a mixed text and many errors in very minute letters.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Am. lect., syn., men., subscr., στίχ., is Kuster's Paris 6, who says that it supplied him with more various readings than all the rest of his Paris manuscripts put together.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose