1. A speech that is open to the public
   "he attended a lecture on telecommunications";
   - public lecture, talk
    
2. Teaching by giving a discourse on some subject, typically to a class
   "His lecture style kept students engaged throughout the semester";
   - lecturing
    
3. A lengthy rebuke
   "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline";
   - speech, talking to [informal]

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, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], trounce, reprimand, jaw [informal], dress down [informal], call down [informal], scold, chide, berate, bawl out [informal], chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], wig [Brit, informal], carpet [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: lecturing, lectures, lectured

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

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

Encyclopedia: Lecture