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noun a speech that is open to the public
noun a lengthy rebuke
noun teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
originFrom Middle English 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.
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