Meaning

4 senses

  1. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.

    During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.

    Vorlesung, Vortrag

    ле́кцияlékcija, уро́кurók, докла́дdoklád

    ле́кціяlékcija

  2. (broadly)A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university.

    We will not have lecture tomorrow.

    Lecture notes are online.

  3. A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner.

    I really don't want you to give me a lecture about my bad eating habits.

  4. (obsolete)The act of reading.

    the lecture of Holy Scripture

More definitions
  • teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
  • a lengthy rebuke
  • a speech that is open to the public

Examples

335 sentences

  1. What's the subject of your lecture?

    Яка тема твоєї доповіді? — deniko

    deWas ist das Thema deines Vortrags? — Zaghawa

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  2. I ought to have attended the lecture.

    Я повинен був бути присутнім на лекції. — Anjy

    ruЯ должен был присутствовать на этой лекции. — shanghainese

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  3. The students sat still, listening to the lecture.

    Студенти тихо сиділи і слухали лекцію. — uaspeaker

    ruСтуденты тихо сидели и слушали лекцию. — Hellerick

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  4. I fell asleep in the middle of the lecture.

    Я заснув посеред лекції. — deniko

    ruЯ заснул на середине лекции. — odexed

    deIch schlief mitten in der Vorlesung ein. — xtofu80

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  5. His lectures are terribly boring.

    Його лекції надзвичайно нудні. — ascolto

    ruЕго лекции ужасно скучны. — Lenin_1917

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a spoken lesson:
Русский
By meaning 1
a spoken lesson:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a spoken lesson:

Origin

From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Lat

From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“to read, recite”). Doublet of lector.

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Forms

plural: lectures
Singularlecture
Plurallectures

regular

Synonyms

21 synonyms
dressing downgoing oversermonberatingbrowbeatingchidingchocklingcorreptiondirdumdown the banksjawingobjurgationrixationscolding
Close in meaning
  • teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class):lecturing
  • a lengthy rebuke:speechtalking to
  • a speech that is open to the public:public lecturetalk

Word family

20 related words
Relatedacroamaticlectureship
Derivedbelecturecurtain lecturelecture bottlelectureelecture halllecturelikelecturesomelecturesslecture theatrelecturettelecturizelecturousmicrolectureminilecturenonlecturepostlectureprelecturetelelecture

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
leavenC2lechlecherouslecturerB2ledgeledger

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