Meaning of lecture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Lecture, presentation.
2. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
3. A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university.
   broadly
4. To deliver a lecture or series of lectures.
5. A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner.
6. A usually formal oral communication to an audience:address, allocution, declamation, oration, prelection, speech, talk.
7. The act of reading.
   obsolete
8. To talk to an audience formally:address, prelect, speak.
9. to give a lecture. He lectures on Roman Art; She lectured him on good behaviour. les gee, lesing gee يُقَدِّمُ مُحاضَرَه чета лекция ensinar přednášet einen Vortrag/Vorlesung halten forelæse; irettesætte δίνω διαλέξη, κάνω κήρυγμα dar una conferencia/clase loengut pidama, peapesu tegema کنفرانس دادن luennoida donner un cours/une leçon לְהַרצוֹת व्याख्यान देना, आलोचना करना podučiti előad berceramah halda fyrirlestur, predika yfir fare una conferenza; fare lezione; fare una ramanzina 講演をする 강의하다...
10. a person who lectures, especially to students. He is a lecturer in the English department. lektor, dosent مُحاضِر лектор professor přednášející der/die Dozent(in) forelæser; lektor λέκτοραςconferenciante, profesor lektor سخنران luennoitsija conférencier, ière, professeur/-eure מרצה, מרצה व्याख्याता predavač előadó; (egyetemi) oktató, kb. tanársegéd penceramah fyrirlesari conferenziere; professore 講師 강사 lektorius, dėstytojas lektors pensyarah docentforeleser, universitetslektorwykładowca لكچرو...
    especially
11. conferencia, disertación.
12. An exposition of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, as for the purpose of instruction.
13. An earnest admonition or reproof; a reprimand.
14. To deliver a lecture to (a class or audience).
15. To admonish or reprove earnestly, often at length: always lecturing me about my manners.

Equivalents

Examples

“During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.”

“The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.”

“We will not have lecture tomorrow.”

“Lecture notes are online.”

“I really don't want you to give me a lecture about my bad eating habits.”

“the lecture of Holy Scripture”

CEFR level