Definitions for lecture

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lecture lec·ture

Spelling: [lek-cher]

IPA: /ˈlɛk tʃər/

Lecture is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in lecture (ceelrtu).

Definitions for lecture

noun

1. a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject:
2. a speech of warning or reproof as to conduct; a long, tedious reprimand.

verb (used with object)

1. to deliver a lecture to or before; instruct by lectures.
2. to rebuke or reprimand at some length:

verb (used without object)

1. to give a lecture or series of lectures:

Origin of lecture

1375-1425; late Middle English Medieval Latin lēctūra a reading. See lection, -ure

Examples for lecture

"Why, I've delivered quite a lecture upon beauty," Miss Coleman said.

He carried a chair onto the stage, sat down and repeated the lecture he uses when­ever he hires an old-time musician.

She hated sharing Georgie with his admirers, particularly on lecture tours in in North America.

I could have heard the lecture, but I couldn't spare my hands.

Nobody has to lecture me about how Sharpton has played racial politics in New York.

The instrument formed the subject of the Bakerian lecture for the year 1871.

I, and many fellow men, know this because women say so—they write it, they lecture on it, they write books about it.

The lecture's purpose is to in­spire the rock generation with love and respect for the blues.

There was another listener at the lecture who was unexpectedly present.

Was it probable that she had anything suitable to wear to a lecture?