lecture definition

1. a speech that is open to the public
• examples: he attended a lecture on telecommunications
2. a lengthy rebuke
• examples: a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline
• examples: the teacher gave him a talking to
3. teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
4. deliver a lecture or talk
• examples: She will talk at Rutgers next week
• examples: Did you ever lecture at Harvard?