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lecture

SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə//
  • Vereinigtes Königreich/[ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə]/
  • Australien//ˈlek.t͡ʃə//
  • Australien/[ˈlek.t͡ʃə]/
  • Neuseeland//ˈle̝k.t͡ʃɘ//

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

Substantiv

  1. 1

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

    During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    veraltetThe act of reading.

    the lecture of Holy Scripture

Herkunft

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

Verb

  1. 1

    To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.

    The professor lectured to two classes this morning.

  2. 2

    To preach, to berate, to scold.

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

    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.

Formen

Plural
lectures
Präteritum
lectured
Partizip II
lectured
Partizip I
lecturing
3. Person Singular
lectures
Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

Lexikalische Inhalte aus dem Wiktionary, unter CC BY-SA 4.0 · Quelleintrag · Datenstand 2026-08-23

Rang unter den Wörtern des OpenSubtitles-2018-Korpus — Untertitel aus Film und Fernsehen, also gesprochene und nicht geschriebene Sprache (CC BY-SA 3.0).