LECTURE

Definition:

1. [noun] a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
   Synonyms: public talk
   
   
2. [noun] a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
   Synonyms: speech, talking to
   
   
3. [noun] teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
   Synonyms: lecturing
   
   
4. [verb] deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
   Synonyms: talk
   
   
5. [verb] 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"
   Synonyms: call on the carpet, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
   
   

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Related Words:

• preach, prophesy
• chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct
• tell off, brush down
• sermon, preaching
• curtain lecture
• talk

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