lecture
noun
a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject.
lectured
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past participleof lecture.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof lecture.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
lecturenouna speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject.
Example Sentences
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When he wasn’t taking on Nazis, Indy lectured in the sort of dusty, paneled classroom I learned Latin in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
A book club is filled with a hundred little paradoxes: They want to learn but not be lectured to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Badenoch was born in London but spent much of her childhood in Nigeria, as well as the United States, where her mother lectured.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
She was also officer of several technical societies and lectured on technical analysis around the world.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025
Almost nightly he lectured him, but not violently.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
