lecture

English

A lecture in progress at the Singapore Management University

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/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛktʃə(ɹ)

Noun

lecture (plural lectures)

2. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.

   During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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.

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.

   We will not have lecture tomorrow.

   Lecture notes are online.

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

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

5. (obsolete) The act of reading.

   the lecture of Holy Scripture

Derived terms

• curtain lecture
• lecture bottle
• lecture hall
• lectureship
• lecture theatre

 

Translations

a spoken lesson

• Afrikaans: lesing
• Albanian: leksion (sq) m
• Arabic: مُحَاضَرَة f (muḥāḍara)
• Armenian: դասախոսություն (hy) (dasaxosutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: mühazirə (az), məruzə (az)
• Belarusian: ле́кцыя f (ljékcyja)
• Bengali: সবক (bn) (sôbôk)
• Bulgarian: ле́кция (bg) f (lékcija)
• Catalan: conferència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 演講／演讲 (zh) (yǎnjiǎng)

• Czech: přednáška (cs) f
• Danish: forelæsning (da) c
• Dutch: lezing (nl) f, college (nl)
• Esperanto: lekcio
• Estonian: loeng
• Finnish: luento (fi)
• French: conférence (fr) f, cours magistral (fr) m
• Georgian: ლექცია (ka) (lekcia)
• German: Vorlesung (de) f (educational lecture at a university), Vortrag (de) m (talk)
• Greek: διάλεξη (el) f (diálexi)
• Hebrew: הַרְצָאָה (he) f (hartsa'á)
• Hindi: लेक्चर (hi) (lekcar)
• Hungarian: előadás (hu)
• Icelandic: fyrirlestur m
• Indonesian: kuliah (id)
• Irish: léacht f
• Italian: conferenza (it) f, lezione (it)
• Japanese: 講義 (ja) (こうぎ, kōgi)
• Kazakh: лекция (leksiä)
• Korean: 강의(講義) (ko) (gang'ui)
• Kyrgyz: лекция (lektsiya), дарыс (ky) (darıs)
• Lao: ປາຖະກະຖາ (lo) (pā tha ka thā), ການປະທະກະຖາ (kān pa tha ka thā)
• Latvian: lekcija f
• Lithuanian: paskaita f
• Macedonian: предавање n (predavanje)
• Maori: kauhau, kauwhau
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: лекц (mn) (lekc), илтгэл (mn) (iltgel)

• Norman: conféthence f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forelesning m or f, foredrag n

  Nynorsk: førelesing f, forelesning f, foredrag n

• Occitan: lectura (oc) f, cors (oc) m
• Persian: سخنرانی (fa) (soxanrâni), محاضره (fa) (mohâzare)
• Plautdietsch: Väadrach m
• Polish: wykład (pl) m
• Portuguese: conferência (pt) f, palestra (pt)
• Romanian: curs (ro) n, conferință (ro) f
• Russian: ле́кция (ru) f (lékcija), уро́к (ru) m (urók), докла́д (ru) m (doklád) (report)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: преда́ва̄ње n

  Roman: predávānje (sh) n

• Slovak: prednáška f
• Slovene: predavanje n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: cytanje n

• Spanish: conferencia (es) f (talk), (colloquial) charla (es) f (talk), clase (es) f (educational lecture), lección (es) f, aleccionamiento (es) m, plática (es) f
• Swedish: föreläsning (sv) c
• Tajik: маърӯза (tg) (maʾrüza), муҳозара (muhozara), суханрони (suxanron-i)
• Telugu: ఉపన్యాసం (te) (upanyāsaṁ)
• Thai: การบรรยาย, เล็กเชอร์, บรรยาย (th) (ban-yaai)
• Turkish: konferans (tr), ders (tr)
• Ukrainian: ле́кція f (lékcija)
• Uyghur: لېكسىيە (lëksiye)
• Uzbek: leksiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: bài giảng (vi)
• Yiddish: לעקציע f (lektsye)

spiel — see spiel

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.

   The professor lectured to two classes this morning.

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

   Emily's father lectured her about the importance of being home before midnight.

   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Derived terms

• lect.
• lecturer

Related terms

• analects
• lectern
• lection
• lesson

Translations

to teach

• Armenian: դասախոսել (hy) (dasaxosel), դասախոսություն կարդալ (dasaxosutʻyun kardal)
• Bulgarian: изнасям лекция (iznasjam lekcija)
• Czech: přednášet (cs)
• Danish: forelæse
• Esperanto: lekcii
• Finnish: luennoida (fi)
• French: donner une conférence, donner un cours magistral
• German: Vorlesung halten (tertiary education)
• Greek: δίνω διάλεξη (díno diálexi)
• Hungarian: tanít (hu), oktat (hu), előad (hu)
• Indonesian: kuliah (id), menguliahi (id)
• Italian: insegnare (it)
• Macedonian: предава (predava)
• Maori: kauhau, kauwhau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forelese

• Polish: wykładać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: palestrar (pt)
• Russian: чита́ть ле́кцию impf (čitátʹ lékciju), преподава́ть (ru) impf (prepodavátʹ)
• Spanish: aleccionar (es), dictar (es), impartir (es)
• Swedish: föredra (sv)
• Turkish: ders anlatmak

to berate, to scold

• Bulgarian: мъмря (bg) (mǎmrja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 训斥 (zh) (xùnchì)

• Czech: poučovat (cs)
• Finnish: läksyttää (fi)
• French: gronder (fr), faire la leçon (fr), faire la morale (fr)
• Greek: κατσαδιάζω (el) (katsadiázo)
• Hungarian: megleckéztet (hu), leckéztet (hu), megfedd (hu), prédikál (hu), megró (hu), megmossa a fejét, megdorgál (hu), megint (hu), megpirongat (hu), rendreutasít (hu)
• Italian: sgridare (it), richiamare (it), fare la predica
• Macedonian: одр́жува ле́кција (odŕžuva lékcija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: irettesette, skjenne (no)

• Russian: чита́ть нота́ции impf (čitátʹ notácii), выгова́ривать (ru) impf (vygovárivatʹ), отчи́тывать (ru) impf (otčítyvatʹ), отчи́та́ть (ru) pf (otčítátʹ)
• Spanish: sermonear (es), amonestar (es), reprehender (es)
• Swedish: läxa upp (sv), mästra (sv)
• Turkish: haşlamak (tr) (informal), fırça atmak (tr) (informal)

See also

• (adj.): acroamatic

Anagrams

• truecel

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛk.tyʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

• clé de lecture
• comité de lecture
• donner lecture
• lecture rapide
• lunettes de lecture
• relecture

 

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