Lecture

Definition: Lecture

Lecture

Noun

1. A speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications".

2. A lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to".

3. Teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class).

Verb

1. Deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?".

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"; "check" is archaic.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lecture" was first used: 13th century. (references)

19th Century Satire

Education

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lecture

Allocution

Lecture; (make a speech).

Disapprobation

Reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look.

Reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue; bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.

Dissertation

Noun: dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis, theme; monograph, tract, tractate, tractation; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect; excursus.

Rite

Ministration; preaching, preachment; predication, sermon, homily, lecture, discourse, pastoral.

Preach, sermonize, predicate, lecture.

School

Pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune.

Speech

Oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy; allocution; conversation; salutatory : screed: valedictory.

Hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech; Noun: speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate; (speak at length); speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump.

Teaching

Expound; (interpret); lecture; read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse; incept; hold forth, preach; sermonize, moralize; point a moral.

Explanation; (interpretation); lesson, lecture, sermon; apologue, parable; discourse, prolection, preachment; chalk talk; Chautauqua.

Crosswords: Lecture

French (interpretation, perusal, playback, read, reading).

That'll teach you to lecture me. Get me another anger management therapist (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

Jim, I don't need a lecture on ethics (Election; writing credit: Alexander Payne)

Why is it that every time drink out of the milk carton, I get a lecture, but Travis Bickle moves in with a semi-automatic weapon, and it's okay (Look Who's Talking Too; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

He did a whole lecture once on the dangers of relationships in the workplace (Legalese; writing credit: Billy Ray)

Spare me the lecture. (X2; writing credit: Zak Penn; David Hayter)

But, uh, back to the lecture at hand (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Lecture pour tous (1953)

A Lecture on Camouflage (1944)

Colonel Heeza Liar's Temperance Lecture (1917)

Doc Yak's Temperance Lecture (1914)

The Temperance Lecture (1913)

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Books

• The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and 'Women's Work' (Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality) (reference)

• John Taylor Arms, his world and work : the Nason-Piston lecture on fine prints (reference)

• Lecture Notes on Opthalmology (reference)

• The occult significance of blood: a public lecture given in Berlin, 25th October, 1906 (reference)

• People First: 1997 Paul G. Hoffman Lecture (Ods Lecture Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Lecture Jeune (reference)

• Nash Lecture (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Modern Masters Lecture Series (reference)

• My Lai and Why It Matters, Ron Ridenhour's Last Lecture (reference)

• Vietnam Then and Now: David Halberstam, Ron Ridenhour Memorial Lecture 2000 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Lecture on Nothing (reference)

• Liszt: Apres Une Lecture Du Dante/Bartok: Out Of Doors/Silvestrov: Naive Music/Beethoven: Seven Bagatelles (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Dr. George H. A. Clowes was a member of the Roswell Park staff from 1904 to 1917. He is credited with initiating the first cancer chemotherapy program in the U.S.A. AACR inaugurated the Clowes Memorial Lecture in his honor. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Pathogens Probes and Perceptions Lecture Poster.

Caption: Ediphone Used to Record a Lecture at Columbia University; New York, NY; September, 1912; {29.320/79} (jpg).

[Sune Bergström's lecture on the prostaglandins-bioregulators with clinical implication]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Dr. Piez's lecture on collagen, its chemistry, structure, and function]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Now you just let Uncle Willie have the bag, and he will recite you his famous Chautauqua lecture...". Credit: Library of Congress.

Scientific researches! - New discoveries in pneumaticks! - or - An experimental lecture on the powers of air / /Js. Gillray inv. & fect. Credit: Library of Congress.

Presque Isle, Maine. State agricultural experimental farm. Lecture on potato blight. Credit: Library of Congress.

Capitol Radio Engineering Institute. Lecture in classroom at Capitol Radio Engineering Institute. Credit: Library of Congress.

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building. Change of radios lecture. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Eleven! Then he was late for that lecture too.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Don’t lecture or try to “score points” on your teen by showing how he or she is wrong. (references)

Civil Liberties

Benin

University professors are permitted to lecture freely, conduct research, and publish their work. (references)

Czech Republic

In April a controversy arose at Charles University after far-right extremists participated in a lecture series on political extremism. (references)

Pakistan

In October 2000, police arrested Dr. Younis Shaikh on blasphemy charges after he allegedly made remarks offensive to Islam and to the Prophet Mohammad during a lecture. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

Prestige is granted to executive training firms able to bring high profile trainers/gurus to Argentina to lecture and train about their methodology. (references)

Bahrain

The Government of Bahrain tourism budget for the year 2000-2001 is USD 7.7 million in comparison to USD 1.33 in 1999. According to Dr. Kadhem Rajab, Undersecretary Tourism Affairs, 75 percent of the budget is allocated to a program to restore historic sites, as well as to develop service infrastructure, information centers and lecture rooms in historic sites, souvenir shops, restrooms and other infrastructure services. (references)

Political Economy

Finland

Aho took a one-year leave of absence in 2000-2001 to lecture and study at Harvard University. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "lecture": audit to a lecture course ♦ Clinical lecture ♦ curtain lecture ♦ deliver lecture ♦ give a lecture ♦ give a lecture on ♦ inaugural lecture ♦ lantern slide lecture ♦ lecture course ♦ lecture demonstration ♦ lecture hall ♦ lecture notes ♦ Lecture Notes [Publication Type] ♦ lecture on ♦ lecture on anatomy ♦ lecture room ♦ lecture theater ♦ lecture theatre ♦ moral lecture ♦ public lecture ♦ read smb. a lecture ♦ slide lecture ♦ the lecture is about ♦ university lecture. Additional references.

Beginning with "lecture": lecture-based, lecture-course, lecture-cum-sermon, lecture-demonstration, lecture-demonstrations, lecture-hall, lecture-room, lecture-rooms, lecture-series, lecture-textbook-assignment-grade.

Ending with "lecture": co-lecture, mini-lecture, non-lecture, typo-lecture.

Albanian

leksion (school), udhëzim (direction, directive, edification, instruction, manual), qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), mbaj një leksion, mbaj një fjalë, jap udhëzime. (various references)

Arabic 

‏محاضرة (discourse, harangue), ‏وعظ (exhort, harangue, homiletics, jaw, moralize, plead a cause, preach, preaching, prophesy, pulpit, recommend, sermonize), ‏وبخ رسميا, ‏حاضر (attendant, current, discourse, give a lecture, harangue, present, present day, ready), ‏درس (case, classes, consideration, din into, elaborate, examine, excogitate, go over, instruction, learn, learning, lesson, period, profess, read, read up, reading, study, talk over, teach, think out, tutor, view). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чета нотация, чета лекции (prelect, read), нотация (lesson, notation), мъмря (call down, caution, correct, lesson, objurgate, rap, rebuke, reprimand, school, scold), мъмрене (caution, objurgation, rebuke, reprimand, rowing, scolding, talking to), лекция (discourse, prelection, sermon), поучавам (admonish, edify, instruct, moralize, preach, teach). (various references)

Chinese 

講課 (teach), 演讲 (Addressed, Addressing, Discourse, Lectured, lecturing), 報告 (make known, report, speech, talk, to inform). (various references)

Czech

pouèovat (indoctrinate), přednáška (lection, reading, talk), přednášet (dissertate, profess, read, recite), kázání (dressing down, harangue, homily, jaw, predication, sermon). (various references)

Danish

foredrag (paper presentation, report, talk). (various references)

Dutch

spreekbeurt (paper presentation, report), lezing (paper presentation, report), college geven. (various references)

Esperanto

lekcio, lekcii, prelego, prelegi. (various references)

Faeroese

fyrilestur. (various references)

Farsi 

نطق کردن , کنفرانس (Circuit, Colloquium, Conclave), سخنرانی کردن (Discourse, Lobby, Speak), سخنرانی (Oration, Prelection, Speech), خطابه گفتن , خطابه (Address, Oration, Precept, Prelection, Sermon), درس (Lesson, Point, Study). (various references)

Finnish

luento (paper presentation, report), esitelmä (discourse). (various references)

French

conférence (lecturing), exposé. (various references)

German

Vortrag (account, account carried forward, amount brought forward, balance carried forward, performance, play, reading, recital, recitation, record, rendering, report, speech, talk, utterance), vorlesung (course, lectureship, period), Referat (account, department, paper, project, record, report, seminar paper), Lektüre (perusal, reader, reading, reading matter), kolleg (college, course of lectures). (various references)

Greek 

διάλεξη (prelection). (various references)

Hebrew 

הרצאה (discourse, gracious acceptance, specifying, talk). (various references)

Hungarian

leckéztet, tanít (instruct, profess, school, taught, teach, to edify, to educate, to instruct, to profess, to teach), felolvasás (reading), elõadás (performance, presentation, presenting, recitation, rendering, show), elõad (hold forth, perform, play, prelect, recite, sing), előadás (class, course, discourse, number, performance, recitation, rendering, rendition, show). (various references)

Indonesian

mengajarkan (preach, teach), kuliah. (various references)

Italian

conferenza (conference, congress, discussion, palaver). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

講釈 (exposition), 講話 (discourse), 講義　, 講義 , 講演会 , 講演　 (address), 講演 (address), 談義 , レーニン主義 (beggar, homeless, label, labor union, lane, layer, layered cut, layered look, layman, layoff, layout, layout-system, leg guards, leggings, Leghorn, lei, Leninism, leopon, leotard, lexicon, philosophy of life, racialism, racism, rail, rain, rainbow fish, raincoat, rainy, raise, range, ranger, rape, rapier, rare, rare metal, ray, Ray-Ban, rayonne, ray-tracing, record, recorder, recording, recreation, regatta, reggae, regular, regular chain store, regular member, regulation, Regulus, requiem), 演述 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

レクチャー , こうぎ (amity, authorities, broader application, equity, fine workmanship, friendship, government, imperial court, just view, justice, kindness or favour, objection, official, protest, public affairs, public opinion, shogunate government, skill, warm friendship, wide sense, your kindness), こうしゃく (duke, exposition, marquess, marquis, prince), こうわ (conclude peace, discourse, peace, reconciliation), こうえんかい (committee, fan club, support group), こうえん (address, backing, flame, good performance, incense smoke, light and flame, lofty, mouth ulcer, noble, oral presentation, park, prominence, public performance, red flame, stomatitis, support, vast and far-reaching), えんじゅつ, だんぎ. (various references)

Korean 

강의 (lecturing). (various references)

Manx

leaghtey (lecturing), leaght. (various references)

Maya

tze'ekt (to lecture). (various references)

Norwegian

forelesning, foredrag (discourse). (various references)

Pig Latin

ecturelay.(various references)

Polish

prelekcja. (various references)

Portuguese

preleção (reading), conferência (assemblage, conference, congress, negotiation, parley, parling, prelection, reading, recount, speech, talk, travel-film, travelogue). (various references)

Romanian

prelegere (lesson, university lecture), mustrare (dressing, lash, pi-jaw, prick, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, row, scolding, slur, snub, trim, trimming, wigging), moralã (ethics, lesson, moral, moral philosophy, morality, spirits), face moralã (jaw, preach), dojanã (admonishment, lash, lesson, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, row, scolding, set down, snub, taunt, twit), cuvântare (address, harangue, speaking, speech, utterance), curs (act, channel, course, current, duration, flow, lapse, progress, quotation, rate, session, swim, tack, train, trend), conferinţã (conference, congress, diet, parley, reading, session, speech), conferenţia în faţã, ţine un curs, ţine o prelegere (prelect), ţine o conferinţã (give a lecture). (various references)

Russian 

читать лекции/ лекция, нравоучение (moral, pi jaw), нотация (lesson, notation), лекция (college, discourse, reading), прочесть нотацию. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukoriti (objurgate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold), pridika (preachment, sermon), predavanje (commitment, committal, discourse), držati predavanje. (various references)

Spanish

conferencia (confabulation, conference, conference call, palaver, powwow, prelection, symposium, toll call), clase (breeding, class, denomination, description, form, grade, kind, lesson, manner, nature, order, period, quality, school, schoolroom, set, sort, tone). (various references)

Swedish

föreläsning (reading), föreläsa (prelect, read), föredrag (delivery, diction, discourse, disquisition, execution, paper, talk). (various references)

Thai

บรรยาย (describe, lecture about, lecture on, limn, narrate), การบรรยาย, ว่ากล่าว (lesson). (various references)

Turkish

uzun öğüt, uyarmak (admonish, advise, advise against, advise smb. of smth., alert, awake, awake smb. to smth., caution, charge, excite, exhort, expostulate, forewarn, give notice, give smb. notice of, give warning, induce, remonstrate, serve notice, sex up, stimulate, tip, tip off, tip smb. off, tip the wink, warn), uyarı (admonition, admonitory, advice, caution, caveat, commination, demerit, demerit mark, exhortation, injunction, monition, notice, remark, remonstrance, tip off, warning), konferans vermek (give a lecture, prelect), konferans (conference, reading, thinkin), ders vermek (give a good lesson, give a lecture, give a lesson, prelect, school, teach), ders anlatmak (give a lecture, give a lesson), ders (class, example, lesson, morals, object lesson, one in the eye, subject, teaching, training), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate), azar (earful, going-over, jaw, lashing, objurgation, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, reproval, rocket, scolding, slating, talking to, telling off, tongue-lashing, trimming), öğütler vermek. (various references)

Turkmen 

pent (admonition). (various references)

Ukrainian

читати лекцію (prelect), вичитувати (drop across, talk to), нотація (homily, notation, sermon), лекція (discourse, prelection, reading, talk), лектура. (various references)

Vietnamese 

lời quở trách (rebuke, reprimand, reproof), bài thuyết trình (discourse), bài nói chuyện lời la mắng, bài lên lớp, bài diễn thuyết (discourse, harangue). (various references)

Welsh

llith (lesson, mash), darlithio, darlith. (various references)

skhole. (various references)

auditio, auditione, auditionem, auditionis, lectione, lectionem, lectioni, lectionis, legere. (various references)

lectura. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lecture": lectured, lecturer, lecturers, lectures, lectureship, lectureships. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lecture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alectura, lecctur, Lecours, lecteur, lectr, lectu, lectur, Lefcourt, Lettaure, Leuctra, lucure. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cutler, reluct, tercel.

-2 letters: creel, cruel, cruet, culet, curet, cuter, elect, elute, erect, eruct, lucre, recut, relet, terce, truce, ulcer.

-3 letters: celt, cere, cete, clue, cult, cure, curl, curt, cute, ecru, leer, leet, luce, lure, lute, reel, rete, rule, teel, tele, tree, true, tule.

-4 letters: cee, cel, cue, cur, cut, ecu, eel, ere, lee.

+1 letter: cruelest, electrum, lectured, lecturer, lectures, relucent, relucted, reticule, tubercle, ulcerate.

+2 letters: calenture, clustered, cluttered, crenulate, cruellest, cruelties, cutleries, electrums, electuary, lecturers, reluctate, reticules, tubercles, ulcerated, ulcerates, urceolate, ureotelic.

+3 letters: calentures, coulometer, creaturely, crenulated, edulcorate, elucubrate, operculate, perceptual, pluperfect, reluctance, reluctated, reluctates, resculpted, respectful, reticulate, telecourse, trabeculae, truculence, turbulence, turtleneck, ulcerative, unclearest.

+4 letters: breechclout, carefullest, caterwauled, coulometers, counterplea, credulities, edulcorated, edulcorates, electrocute, electuaries, elucubrated, elucubrates, executorial, fluorescent, intercouple, lectureship, multicenter, multiscreen, neuroleptic, operculated, pluperfects, prefectural, putrescible, recalculate, recirculate, recultivate, recurrently, reductively, reduplicate, reinoculate, relubricate, reluctances, reticulated, reticulates, revictualed, sericulture, telecourses, trabeculate, truculences, tuberculate, turbulences, turtlenecks, ultrasecret, uncluttered, untraceable, vermiculate, vermiculite.