lec|ture

lec|ture
lec|ture «LEHK chuhr», noun, verb, -tured, -tur|ing.
–n.
1. a) a speech; planned talk on a chosen subject: »

I can spare the college bell, And the learned lecture well (Emerson).

 b) such a speech or talk written down or printed: »

Two lectures…appear in appendixes (New Yorker).

2. a scolding: »

My mother gives me a lecture when I come home late for supper.

–v.i.
to give a lecture or lectures: »

The explorer lectured on life in the Arctic.

–v.t.
1. to instruct or entertain by a lecturedefn>to scold; reprove: »

Those whom he had lectured withdrew full of resentment (Macaulay).

 SYNONYM(S): admonish, rebuke, reprimand.
╂[< Late Latin lēctūra < legere read]

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