lecture
Syllables: lec·tureUK/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/
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Australia/ˈlek.t͡ʃə/
lecture noun: a spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
Noun
lecture (plural lectures)
- A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
- During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.
- The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- 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.
- Lecture notes are online.
- 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
- The act of reading.
- the lecture of Holy Scripture
Verb
lecture (third-person singular simple present lectures, present participle lecturing, simple past and past participle lectured)
- To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
- The professor lectured to two classes this morning.
- To preach, to berate, to scold.
- Emily's father lectured her about the importance of being home before midnight.
- The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west...2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18
lecture meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
lecture in Hindi
- a spoken lesson
- लेक्चर lekcar
lecture in Tamil
- விரிவுரை
lecture in Marathi
- lecture, discourse
- व्याख्यान vyākhyān
lecture in Urdu
- lecture, speech
- بھاشن bhāśan
- lecture
- لیکچر lekcar, سبق sabaq
- lecture, sermon
- بیان bayān
- a lecture
- خطبہ xutba
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- lecture in Bengali
- সবক sôbôk
- lecture in Telugu
- ఉపన్యాసం upanyāsaṁ
- lecture in Malayalam
- പ്രഭാഷണം prabhāṣaṇaṁ
- lecture in Kannada
- ಪೆರ್ಮಾತು, ಪಾಠ ಹೇಳು, ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸ ಮಾಡು, ಭಾಷಣ ಮಾಡು
- lecture in Punjabi
- بھاشن bhāśaṇ
- lecture in Gujarati
- ભાષણ bhāṣaṇ
- lecture in Odia
- ବକ୍ତୃତା
- lecture in Sanskrit
- प्रपाठक prapāṭhaka
- lecture in Nepali
- व्याख्यान
- lecture in Arabic
- مُحَاضَرَة muḥāḍara
- lecture in Indonesian
- kuliah, menguliahi
- lecture in Persian
- سخنرانی soxanrâni, محاضره mohâzare
- lecture in Thai
- การบรรยาย, เล็กเชอร์, บรรยาย ban-yaai
- lecture in Vietnamese
- bài giảng
Examples of lecture in a sentence
- The professor stopped her lecture abruptly when she noticed someone fall off their seat.
- My professor's accent is so thick that it's difficult to understand her lectures.
- His lectures held up Napoleon as an example of the phenomenon.
Synonyms of lecture
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Forms of lecture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lectures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lectures |
| present participle | lecturing |
| past participle | lectured |
| past | lectured |
Origin of lecture
From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“to read, recite”). Doublet of lector.
Words formed from lecture
Phrases with lecture
Questions about lecture
- What does lecture mean?
- Lecture means a spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
- What is lecture in Hindi?
- Lecture in Hindi is लेक्चर (lekcar). See Lecture meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lecture?
- Lecture can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lecture?
- Lecture is pronounced /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lecture?
- The plural of lecture is lectures.
Words near lecture in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lecture (page history and authors); lecture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); व्याख्यान (Marathi) (page history and authors); بھاشن (Urdu) (page history and authors); പ്രഭാഷണം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); lecture (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بھاشن (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ભાષણ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); lecture (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); प्रपाठक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); lecture (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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