LECTURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lecturing mean? 

• LECTURING (noun)
  The noun LECTURING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LECTURING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LECTURING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lecture; lecturing

Hypernyms ("lecturing" is a kind of...):

instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)

Meronyms (parts of "lecturing"):

lecture demonstration (presentation of an example of what the lecturer is discoursing about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lecturing"):

talk (the act of giving a talk to an audience)

Holonyms ("lecturing" is a part of...):

class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)

 Context examples 

Partly from curiosity and partly from idleness, I went into the lecturing room, which M. Waldman entered shortly after.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He held it up and tapped on it with his long, thin fore-finger, as a professor might who was lecturing on a bone.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg stopped lecturing, and lighted the lamp, Amy got out of the easy chair without being asked, and Jo forgot how tired she was as she sat up to hold the slippers nearer to the blaze.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One afternoon he went out with Arthur to the University of California, and, with bated breath and a feeling of religious awe, went through the laboratories, saw demonstrations, and listened to a physics professor lecturing to his classes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)