1. lecture - Noun
2. lecture - Verb
The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.
A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
A rehearsal of a lesson.
To read or deliver a lecture to.
To reprove formally and with authority.
To deliver a lecture or lectures.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger. Ayelet Waldman
I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards. John Barrowman
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist. Jerry Coyne
I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman. John D. MacDonald
The loquacity of fools is a lecture to the wise. Italian Proverb
In the forehead and the eye, the lecture of the mind doth lie. Romanian Proverb