Dictionary definition · lecture
noun
- a speech that is open to the public"he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
- a lengthy rebuke"a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"
- teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
verb
- deliver a lecture or talk"She will talk at Rutgers next week"
- censure severely or angrily"The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).