LECTURE
Dictionary entry overview: What does lecture mean?
• LECTURE (noun)
The noun LECTURE has 3 senses:
1. a speech that is open to the public
2. a lengthy rebuke
3. teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
Familiarity information: LECTURE used as a noun is uncommon.
• LECTURE (verb)
The verb LECTURE has 2 senses:
1. deliver a lecture or talk
2. censure severely or angrily
Familiarity information: LECTURE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LECTURE (noun)
Meaning:
A speech that is open to the public
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
lecture; public lecture; talk
Context example:
he attended a lecture on telecommunications
Hypernyms ("lecture" is a kind of...):
address; speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)
Meaning:
A lengthy rebuke
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
talking to; lecture; speech
Context examples:
a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline / the teacher gave him a talking to
Hypernyms ("lecture" is a kind of...):
rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lecture"):
preaching; sermon (a moralistic rebuke)
curtain lecture (a private lecture to a husband by his wife)
Meaning:
Teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
lecturing; lecture
Hypernyms ("lecture" is a kind of...):
instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)
Meronyms (parts of "lecture"):
lecture demonstration (presentation of an example of what the lecturer is discoursing about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lecture"):
talk (the act of giving a talk to an audience)
Holonyms ("lecture" is a part of...):
class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)
• LECTURE (verb)
Meaning:
Deliver a lecture or talk
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
lecture; talk
Context examples:
She will talk at Rutgers next week / Did you ever lecture at Harvard?
Hypernyms (to "lecture" is one way to...):
instruct; learn; teach (impart skills or knowledge to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lecture"):
preach; prophesy (deliver a sermon)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Something ----s to somebody
Somebody ----s on something
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue lecture
Meaning:
Censure severely or angrily
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
take to task; scold; reproof; rebuke; have words; dress down; chide; chew up; chew out; berate; call on the carpet; bawl out; reprimand; lecture; lambaste; lambast; call down; trounce; remonstrate; jaw; rag
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "lecture" is one way to...):
criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lecture"):
castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate (censure severely)
brush down; tell off (reprimand)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
