Lecture \Lec"ture\ (-t[-u]r; 135), n. [F. lecture, LL. lectura,
   fr. L. legere, lectum, to read. See Legend.]
   1. The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
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   2. A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or
      methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes,
      a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.
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   3. A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
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   4. (Eng. Universities) A rehearsal of a lesson.
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	Lecture \Lec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lectured (-t[-u]rd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Lecturing.]
   1. To read or deliver a lecture to.
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   2. To reprove formally and with authority.
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	Lecture \Lec"ture\, v. i.
   To deliver a lecture or lectures.
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	lecture
    n 1: a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture
         on telecommunications" [syn: lecture, public lecture,
         talk]
    2: a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of
       discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" [syn:
       lecture, speech, talking to]
    3: teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to
       a class) [syn: lecture, lecturing]
    v 1: deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next
         week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" [syn: lecture,
         talk]
    2: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
       for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime
       Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing
       cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task,
       rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture,
       reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold,
       chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out,
       chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]

	

	109 Moby Thesaurus words for "lecture":
   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