different between lecture vs lyceum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of leg? (“I read, I recite”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?k.t???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?k.t???/

Noun

lecture (plural lectures)

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

3. (by extension) a class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1) [usually at college or university]

4. A berating or scolding.

5. (obsolete) The act of reading.

Translations

See also

• (adj.): acroamatic

Verb

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

2. (transitive, intransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Derived terms

• lecturer

Related terms

• analects
• lectern
• lection
• lesson

Translations

See also

• (adj.): acroamatic

Anagrams

• truecel

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin l?ct?ra, feminine of Classical Latin l?ct?rus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?k.ty?/

Noun

lecture f (plural lectures)

1. reading (act or process of reading, interpretation, material read, and some other senses)

Derived terms

Related terms

• lecteur
• leçon
• lire

Further reading

• “lecture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lecteur

Latin

Participle

l?ct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of l?ct?rus

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (Lúkeion) (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school), from ??????? ("Lycian" or "wolf-killer").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??si??m/

Noun

lyceum (plural lyceums)

1. (historical) A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.
   • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

     At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done.

   • 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 414

     In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen.

2. (US, historical) A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.
3. An association for literary improvement.

Translations

References

• lyceum in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• lyceum at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• cymule

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lyceum n (definite singular lyceet, indefinite plural lyceer, definite plural lycea or lyceene)

1. alternative form of lycé

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lyceum n (definite singular lyceet, indefinite plural lyceum, definite plural lycea)

1. alternative form of lycé