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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.
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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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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,
EXPANDin 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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