Lecture
WordNet
noun
(1) Teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
(2) A lengthy rebuke
"A good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"
"The teacher gave him a talking to"
(3) A speech that is open to the public
"He attended a lecture on telecommunications"
verb
(4) 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"
(5) Deliver a lecture or talk
"She will talk at Rutgers next week"
"Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
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Etymology
From lectura "action of reading", from lectus (past participle of legere "to read"), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- "gather, collect" (cf. λέγειν legein "to say, tell, speak, declare", originally, in Homer, "to pick out, select, collect, enumerate"; λέξις lexis "speech, diction;" lignum "wood, firewood," lit. “that which is gathered”). To read is to "pick out words".
Noun
- A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to group.
- During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.
Verb
- To teach, by giving a speech on a given topic.
- To berate, to scold.