lecture
Use Lecture in a sentence
tʃər noun
1.
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.
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.
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | a discourse on a particular subject given or read to an audience |
| 2. | the text of such a discourse |
| 3. | a method of teaching by formal discourse |
| 4. | a lengthy reprimand or scolding |
| —vb | |
| 5. | to give or read a lecture (to an audience or class) |
| 6. | (tr) to reprimand at length |
| [C14: from Medieval Latin lectūra reading, from legere to read] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
lecture
late 14c., "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 1520s. That of "a discourse on a given subject before an audience for purposes of instruction" is from 1530s. The verb is attested from 1580s. Related: Lecturer.
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Example sentences
Wireless technology has been installed, providing access to an on-board intranet housing course materials and lecture schedules.
The lecture was so boring and the skinheads became so inebriated they couldn't walk unaided.
It was resonant enough to hold a large lecture-hall audience rapt.
Here try this fantastic lecture by a paleoclimatologist.
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