lecture

Definition

  • noun: a talk or speech given to a group of people to teach them about a particular subject
  • noun: a discourse given before an audience or class especially for instruction
  • verb: to give a talk or a series of talks to a group of people to teach them about a particular subject
  • verb: to deliver a lecture or a course of 'lectures'
  • synonyms: address, admonish, admonishment

Examples

  • She 'lectures' (to undergraduates) on modern art at the local college.

  • She's planning to give/deliver a series of 'lectures' on modern art.

  • They 'lectured' their children about/on the importance of honesty.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) deep as lay the workers' city below the earth, so high above it towered the complex named the "Club of the Sons," with its lecture halls and libraries, its theaters and stadiums. Fathers, for whom every revolution of a machine wheel meant gold, had created for their sons the miracle of the (..)
    1927 Metropolis