lecture
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.
a speech of warning or reproof as to conduct; a long, tedious reprimand.
to give a lecture or series of lectures: He spent the year lecturing to various student groups.
to deliver a lecture to or before; instruct by lectures.
to rebuke or reprimand at some length: He lectured the child regularly but with little effect.
Origin of lecture
1Other words for lecture
Other words from lecture
- pre·lec·ture, noun, adjective, verb, pre·lec·tured, pre·lec·tur·ing.
- un·lec·tured, adjective
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How to use lecture in a sentence
Sanders has done research that shows that college students tend to learn better when they have access to videos of lectures.
Healthy screen time is one challenge of distance learning | Kathryn Hulick | September 11, 2020 | Science News For StudentsHe and Dung Bui, then also at Washington University, had students listen to a lecture on car brakes and pumps.
Top 10 tips on how to study smarter, not longer | Kathiann Kowalski | September 9, 2020 | Science News For StudentsLike thousands of US colleges and universities this spring, Simmons University in Boston had to adjust to Covid-19 on the fly, closing lecture halls and moving classes online.
History will look back on 2020 as a turning point for US universities | Oliver Staley | August 23, 2020 | QuartzNor did it touch you as a student seated in the wood-paneled lecture halls of law school.
Concerts, theatrical performances, award shows, conventions, lecture tours – every large in-person event across the country was either cancelled or postponed for the foreseeable future.
GLAAD Media Awards will go on – virtually, of course | John Paul King | July 23, 2020 | Washington Blade
Nobody has to lecture me about how Sharpton has played racial politics in New York.
Steve Scalise and the Right’s Ridiculous Racial Blame Game | Michael Tomasky | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI, and many fellow men, know this because women say so—they write it, they lecture on it, they write books about it.
She hated sharing Georgie with his admirers, particularly on lecture tours in in North America.
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else | Allen Barra | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe closing lecture also presents questions that Chomsky never answers—mainly one of alternatives.
He carried a chair onto the stage, sat down and repeated the lecture he uses whenever he hires an old-time musician.
Stanley Booth on the Life and Hard Times of Blues Genius Furry Lewis | Stanley Booth | June 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI told her, when I wrote last, how I felt; and you never read such a lecture as she gave me in return.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodHowever, he arrived in Aberdeen radiant, gave his lecture, and at the end was presented by Donald with a cheque for twenty pounds.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellLectures—Two ladies may attend a lecture, unaccompanied by a gentleman, without attracting attention.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyIn a room, a few miles out of London, I had just given a lecture to the members of a literary Society.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellI have often had the pleasure of hearing Mme. de Mirbel lecture her and it was very comical.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier
British Dictionary definitions for lecture
/ (ˈlɛktʃə) /
a discourse on a particular subject given or read to an audience
the text of such a discourse
a method of teaching by formal discourse
a lengthy reprimand or scolding
to give or read a lecture (to an audience or class)
(tr) to reprimand at length
Origin of lecture
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