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1. A speech that is open to the public
   "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"; "he attended a public lecture on telecommunications"
   - public lecture, talk
    
2. A lengthy rebuke
   "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"
   - speech, talking to
    
3. Teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
   - lecturing

1. Deliver a lecture or talk
   "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
   - talk
    
2. Censure severely or angrily
   "The deputy lectured the Prime Minister"
   - call on the carpet [US], take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out [N. Amer], chew up [N. Amer], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer]

Derived forms: lecturing, lectures, lectured

See also: lecturer, lectureship

Type of: address, criticise [Brit], criticize, damn, instruct, instruction, knock, learn, pedagogy, pick apart, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval, speech, teach, teaching

Part of: class, course, course of instruction, course of study

Encyclopedia: Lecture