Lecture

Noun

 * 1) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to group.
 * During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.

Verb

 * 1) To teach, by giving a speech on a given topic.
 * 2) To berate, to scold.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Adjectives for Lecture
edifying; inaugural; compulsory; scientific; interminable; wide-spread; celebrated; didactic; boring; ill-attended.

Verbs for Lecture
assimilate—; attend—; concoct—; deliver —; instruct by—; preach—; profit by—; temper—; —admonishes; —asserts; —assists; —attracts; —confounds; —interests; —perplexes; —rebukes; —reprimands; — reproaches; —stirs; —uplifts.

Adverbs for Lecture
tediously; graphically; eruditely; vividly; edifyingly; scientifically; interminably; didactically; boringly; inspiringly; inspirationally; eloquently.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From lectura: <  lectus: < past participle of lego:.

Noun

 * Arabic: محاضرة
 * Armenian: դասախոսություն
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 演講, 演讲
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: lezing
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 강의
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: conferência
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: föreläsning
 * Telugu: ఉపన్యాసం (upanyaasaM)

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: donner une conférence, donner un cours magistral


 * Greek: δίνω διάλεξη
 * Polish:
 * Russian: читать лекцию


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: κατσαδιάζω


 * Russian: читать нотации; выговаривать ; отчитывать, отчитать

Derived terms

 * lecturer

Related terms

 * analects
 * lectern
 * lection
 * lesson

Noun

 * 1) reading act or process of reading

Etymology
lectura:, feminine of Classical lecturus:

Derived terms

 * relecture

Related terms

 * lire

Anagrams

 * lecteur