lecture

1. 1.

   deliver a lecture or talk

   “She will talk at Rutgers next week”

   “Did you ever lecture at Harvard?”

   Synonymstalk

   Broaderteach

   Narrowerpreach
2. 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”

   Synonymscall on the carpettake to taskrebukeragtrouncereprimandjawdress downcall downscoldchideberatebawl outremonstrate

   Broaderknock

   Narrowerchastisetell off

Other forms of lecture

plural

lectures·

past tense

lectured·

present participle

lecturing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lecture

What does lecture mean?

lecture means "a speech that is open to the public". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lecture?

lecture has 2 syllables: lec-ture. The stress falls on "lec". In IPA it is /ˈlɛktʃɚ/.

What is another word for lecture?

Close synonyms include public lecture, talk, speech, talking to, lecturing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lecture a common word?

lecture is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.