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# lecture

«lecture» in Mova's school dictionary: **A talk given to a group of people, especially students at…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lecture, lectures); verb (lecture, lectures, lectured, lecturing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A talk given to a group of people, especially students at a university, to teach them about a subject. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#m1)

2) A long, serious talk telling someone off or telling them how to behave: Mum gave me a lecture about my messy room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#m2)

3) (verb) To give a talk to students as a teacher at a university or college. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#m3)

4) (verb) To talk to someone in a long, serious way about what they did wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

At university, students go to lectures and take notes; the teacher is a lecturer. In everyday life children often get «a lecture» from parents when they have done something wrong, which sounds boring or annoying. In stories it shows a character being told off at length. Phrases: give a lecture, attend a lecture, lecture hall, lecture theatre, lecture someone about something.

### examples

- My sister goes to three lectures a week at university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#x1)
- The professor gave a lecture on volcanoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#x2)
- I got a long lecture from Dad about leaving the gate open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#x3)
- Please don't lecture me, I know I was wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#x4)
- The lecture hall was full of students. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#x5)
- She lectures in history at the college. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#x6)
- Grandad lectured us about saving money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#x7)
- We listened to a lecture about safety near water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#x8)
- All that botanists can say in many lectures was explained in a moment by this little flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/#x9)

### note

Countable noun: a lecture, lectures. A person who gives lectures is a «lecturer». Note: lecture (a talk) is different from «reading»; in some languages a word like «lecture» means reading, but in English it never does (false friend).

### In the corpora

- [La lecture means reading; a long talk is une conférence or un cours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/35-false-friends/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lecture» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lecture/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.