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Lecture in English
- lecture⇄lecture, noun, verb, -tured,-turing.
- lecture⇄noun 1a. a speech; planned talk on a chosen subject.
Ex. I can spare the college bell, And the learned lecture well (Emerson).
b. such a speech or talk written down or printed.
Ex. Two lectures ... appear in appendixes (New Yorker). - lecture⇄v.i. to give a lecture or lectures.
Ex. The explorer lectured on life in the Arctic. - lecture⇄v.t. 1. to instruct or entertain by a lecture.
2. to scold; reprove.
Ex. Those whom he had lectured withdrew full of resentment (Macaulay).
(SYN) admonish, rebuke, reprimand.