lecture

Meanings

Noun

• A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
• a class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1) [usually at college or university]
• A berating or scolding.
• The act of reading.

Verb

• To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
• To preach, to berate, to scold.

Origin

• From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura ("reading"), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō.