lecture

Noun

• teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)

• a lengthy rebuke
  • a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline
    
  • the teacher gave him a talking to
    

• a speech that is open to the public
  • he attended a lecture on telecommunications
    

Verb

• censure severely or angrily
  • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
    
  • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
    
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
    

• deliver a lecture or talk
  • She will talk at Rutgers next week
    
  • Did you ever lecture at Harvard?
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  lecturing , speech , talking to , public lecture , talk , call on the carpet , take to task , rebuke , rag , trounce , reproof , reprimand , jaw , dress down , call down , scold , chide , berate , bawl out