noun, verb
noun ~ (to sb) (on / about sth)
1 a talk that is given to a group of people to teach them about a particular subject, often as part of a university or college course:
to deliver / give a lecture to first-year students * to attend a series of lectures on Jane Austen * a lecture room / hall
2 a long angry talk that sb gives to one person or a group of people because they have done sth wrong:
I know I should stop smoking-don't give me a lecture about it.
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ (in / on sth) [V] to give a talk or a series of talks to a group of people on a subject, especially as a way of teaching in a university or college:
She lectures in Russian literature.
2 [VN] ~ sb (about / on sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lecture is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lecture a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lecture is tagged as verb.
Does lecture appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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