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語源

From 中期英語 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.

発音

• (non-rhotic)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃəː/, [ˈlɛk.t͡ʃəː]
  • (General Australian) IPA: /ˈlek.t͡ʃəː/, [ˈlek.t͡ʃəː]
  • (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈle̝k.t͡ʃɘː/, [ˈle̝k.t͡ʃɘː]
• (rhotic)
  • (General American, Standard Canadian) IPA: /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃɚ/, [ˈlɛk.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈlɛk.t͡ʃɹ̩]
• 韻: -ɛktʃə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: lec‧ture

名詞

lecture (plural lectures)

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

   During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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. (by extension) 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. A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner.

   Synonyms: dressing down, going over, sermon; see also Thesaurus:scolding

   I really don't want you to give me a lecture about my bad eating habits.

4. (obsolete) The act of reading.

   the lecture of Holy Scripture

派生語

参考

• (adj.): acroamatic

動詞

lecture (third-person singular simple present lectures, present participle lecturing, simple past and past participle lectured)

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

   The professor lectured to two classes this morning.

2. (transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

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

   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:criticize

派生語

関連する語

参考

• (adj.): acroamatic

アナグラム

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