lecture
Professor's formal talk
A lecture is a formal talk given to an audience, typically for instruction: The professor's lecture on quantum mechanics lasted two hours.
The word carries connotations of one-way communication—someone speaks, others listen.
This spawns the disapproving sense: to lecture someone is to scold or admonish them at length, often condescendingly: Don't lecture me about responsibility.
A lecture hall is a room designed for such presentations.
Dramatic speech to oneself
- recitationOral delivery from memory
- narrationVerbal account delivery
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- one-sidedUnfairly weighted toward one
uninterrupted · lengthy · droning · monotone · boring · dry · tedious · rambling
Senior university teacher
- universityHigher education institution
- podiumRaised platform for speakers
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
academia · colloquium · symposium · faculty · tenure · undergraduate · graduate · doctorate
Raised platform for speakers
- lecternTilted stand for texts
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
- speakerOne who talks
- addressSpeak to formally
oration · discourse · keynote · delivery · microphone · presentation · projector · slides
soliloquy
Dramatic speech to oneself
- recitationOral delivery from memory
- narrationVerbal account delivery
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
one-sided · uninterrupted · lengthy · droning · monotone · boring · dry · tedious · rambling · verbose
professor
Senior university teacher
- universityHigher education institution
- podiumRaised platform for speakers
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
dissertation · academia · colloquium · symposium · faculty · tenure · undergraduate · graduate · doctorate · auditorium
podium
Raised platform for speakers
address · oration · discourse · keynote · delivery · microphone · presentation · projector · slides · PowerPoint
harangue
Aggressive lengthy scolding
reprimand · scold · admonish · chastise · moralize · preach · pontificate · berate · upbraid · censure
teach
Impart skills or knowledge
tutor · mentor · guide · pedagogy · didactic · homework · assignment · textbook · study · review
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- eventsevent, events, party, parties, wedding
- loisirssport, cinema, musique, cuisine, voyage
- speechspeech, speaking, talk, diction, conversation
- spoken communicationphone call, conversation, speech, dialogue, voicemail
- collegecampus, courses, application, dorms, dorm room
lecturediscussion
Exchange of ideas
dialogue · conversation · debate · seminar · workshop
lecturepraise
Expression of approval
commendation · congratulations · laud · extol · endorse
lecturecasual chat
hands-on training · learning by doing · apprenticeship · tutoring · mentoring
- video lecturesFilmed academic presentations
- lecture notesWritten record of teaching
- guest lecturesSpeeches by visiting experts
- lecture hallRoom for academic presentations
- lecture theatresTiered rooms for presentations
- lecture seriesScheduled sequence of presentations
lecturer, lectures, lectured, lecturing, lecturers, lecture hall, lectureship, lectureships, lecture halls