Definitions for lectures

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lectures lec·ture

Spelling: [lek-cher]

IPA: /ˈlɛk tʃər/

Lectures is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 306 anagrams from letters in lectures (ceelrstu).

Definitions for lectures

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 lectures

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

Examples for lectures

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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