LECTURE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Lecture

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/lˈɛktʃər/ Listen

noun

Lecture n.

The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture. (Obs.)

A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.

A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.

(Eng. Universities) A rehearsal of a lesson.

verb

Lecture v. t. (past & past part. lectured; pres. part. lecturing)

To read or deliver a lecture to.

To reprove formally and with authority.

Lecture v. i. To deliver a lecture or lectures.

See images of 'Lecture'

Etymology of 'Lecture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Lecture" Quotes from Famous Books

... that as a speaker your words must be born again every time they are spoken, then they will not suffer in their utterance, even though perforce committed to memory and repeated, like Dr. Russell Conwell's lecture, "Acres of Diamonds," five thousand times. Such speeches lose nothing by repetition for the perfectly patent reason that they arise from concentrated thought and feeling and not a mere necessity for saying something—which usually means anything, and that, in turn, ...

— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

... Me" was tried out for a week at Washington. The company arrived there on Sunday afternoon, but was unable to get the stage until midnight because Robert G. Ingersoll was delivering a lecture there. At the outset of this rehearsal Belasco became ill and had to retire to his bed, and Frohman took up the direction of this final rehearsal and worked with the company ...

— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... Colonel, testily, and when the boys had gone he read the Bazar-Sergeant's son a lecture on the sin of unprofitable meddling, and gave orders that the Bandmaster should keep the Drums ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... ambitious courtier! Yes, such a thing as thou wouldst make of me should wear a book at his girdle instead of a poniard, and might just be suspected of manhood enough to squire a proud dame-citizen to the lecture at Saint Antonlin's, and quarrel in her cause with any flat-capped threadmaker that would take the wall of her. He must ruffle it in another sort that would walk to ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... and water-gruel to be had at the Rainbow and Nando's at four. Hot furmity at Bride-bridge at seven. Justice to be had at Doctor's Commons, when people can get it. A lecture at Pinner's hall at ten. Excellent pease-pottage and tripe in Baldwin's Gardens at twelve. A constable and two watchmen killed, or near being so in Westminster; whether by a lord or ...

— History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) - With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

More quotes...