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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

lec·ture

[lek-cher] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -tured, -tur·ing.

–noun

1.	a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, esp. for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.

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

–verb (used without object)

3.	to give a lecture or series of lectures: He spent the year lecturing to various student groups.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to deliver a lecture to or before; instruct by lectures.

5.	to rebuke or reprimand at some length: He lectured the child regularly but with little effect.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < ML léctūra a reading. See lection, -ure

]

—Synonyms 1. address, talk, paper, oratim, discourse. 4. address, teach. 5. admonish; hector.

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lec·ture (lěk'chər) Pronunciation Key
n.

An exposition of a given subject delivered before an audience or a class, as for the purpose of instruction.
An earnest admonition or reproof; a reprimand.

v.   lec·tured, lec·tur·ing, lec·tures

v.   intr.
To deliver a lecture or series of lectures.

v.   tr.

To deliver a lecture to (a class or an audience).
To admonish or reprove earnestly, often at length: always lecturing me about my manners.

[Middle English, a reading, from Old French, from Medieval Latin lēctūra, from Latin lēctus, past participle of legere, to read; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]

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lecture (n.)

1398, "action of reading, that which is read," from M.L. lectura "a reading, lecture," from L. lectus, pp. of legere "to read," originally "to gather, collect, pick out, choose" (cf. election), from PIE *leg- "to pick together, gather, collect" (cf. Gk. legein "to say, tell, speak, declare," originally, in Homer, "to pick out, select, collect, enumerate;" lexis "speech, diction;" logos "word, speech, thought, account;" L. lignum "wood, firewood," lit. “that which is gathered”). To read is to "pick out words." Meaning "action of reading (a lesson) aloud" is from 1526. That of "a discourse on a given subject before an audience for purposes of instruction" is from 1536. The verb is attested from 1590.

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lecture
noun
1.	a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
2.	a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
3.	teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
verb
1.	deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
2.	censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet]

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Lecture

Lec"ture\ (-t[-u]r; 135), n. [F. lecture, LL. lectura, fr. L. legere, lectum, to read. See Legend.]

1. The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture. [Obs.]

2. A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.

3. A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.

4. (Eng. Universities) A rehearsal of a lesson.

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Lecture

Lec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lectured (-t[-u]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lecturing.]

1. To read or deliver a lecture to.

2. To reprove formally and with authority.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Lecture

Lec"ture\, v. i. To deliver a lecture or lectures.