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lecture has 19 distinct synonyms spread across 5 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
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”
censure severely or angrily
“The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for lecture come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.