 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lecture
noun
1: a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture
on telecommunications" [syn: {public lecture}, {talk}]
2: a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of
discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" [syn: {speech},
{talking to}]
3: teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to
a class) [syn: {lecturing}]
verb
1: deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next
week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" [syn: {talk}]
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}, {rebuke},
{rag}, {trounce}, {reproof}, {reprimand}, {jaw}, {dress
down}, {call down}, {scold}, {chide}, {berate}, {bawl out},
{remonstrate}, {chew out}, {chew up}, {have words}, {lambaste},
{lambast}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lecture \Lec"ture\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lecture \Lec"ture\, verb (used without an object)
To deliver a lecture or lectures.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lecture \Lec"ture\ (-t[-u]r; 135), noun [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "lecture":
address, admonish, admonishment, admonition, assignment, berate,
berating, bring to book, call to account, castigation, censure,
chalk talk, chastise, chastisement, chew out, chide, chiding,
correct, correction, criticism, declaim, declamation,
deliver a lecture, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation,
dress down, dressing-down, exercise, explain, exposit, exposition,
expound, fulminate against, harangue, have words with, hold forth,
homework, homily, instruction, lecture-demonstration, lesson,
moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, moralize,
object lesson, objurgate, objurgation, orate, paper, philippic,
point a moral, pontificate, preach, preachification, preachify,
preaching, preachment, prelect, prelection, rail at, rate, rating,
read a lesson, read a sermon, rebuke, recital, recitation,
religious discourse, remonstration, reprehend, reprehension,
reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, reprove,
scold, scolding, screed, sermon, sermonette, sermonize, set down,
set straight, set task, skull session, spank, spanking, speech,
straighten out, take down, take to task, talk, task, teaching,
tell off, tongue-lash, tongue-lashing, travelogue, treatise,
upbraid, upbraiding, warn, wig
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