lect.

Noun

lecture (plural lectures)

1. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
   • During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.
2. (broadly) A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university.
   • We will not have lecture tomorrow.
3. A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner.
   • I really don't want you to give me a lecture about my bad eating habits.

   Synonyms:

   dressing down, going over, sermon, berating, browbeating, chiding, chockling, correption, dirdum, down the banks

4. (obsolete) The act of reading.
   • the lecture of Holy Scripture

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