lecture

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English

Etymology

From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“I read, I recite”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛktʃə(ɹ)

Noun

lecture (plural lectures)

2. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
3. (by extension) A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university.

4. A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner.

5. (obsolete) The act of reading.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (adj.): acroamatic

Verb

lecture (third-person singular simple present lectures, present participle lecturing, simple past and past participle lectured)

2. (transitive, intransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.

3. (transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Derived terms

• lect.
• lecturer

Related terms

• analects
• lectern
• lection
• lesson

Translations

See also

• (adj.): acroamatic

Anagrams

• truecel

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin lēctūra, feminine of Classical Latin lēctūrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛk.tyʁ/

Noun

lecture f (plural lectures)

1. reading (act or process of reading, interpretation, material read, and some other senses)

   redonner à quelqu’un le goût de la lecture ― to rekindle the love of reading

2. playback (the replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images)

   appareil de lecture ― playback device

3. play (an instance of watching or listening to digital media)

Derived terms

Related terms

• lecteur
• leçon
• lire

Further reading

• “lecture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• lecteur

Latin

Participle

lēctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of lēctūrus