Definitions for lectures
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1. Lectures

   Works consisting of speeches read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject. They are differentiated from ADDRESSES [PUBLICATION TYPE] which are less didactic and more informational, entertaining, inspirational, or polemic. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lectures' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3373

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How to pronounce lectures?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lectures in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lectures in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of lectures in a Sentence

1. John Gay:

   How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

2. Sam Waterston:

   The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

3. Mike Schur:

   We've learned so much about so much stuff, it's been like a rotating course of lectures that we've had in our writers room, and it's been so fun.

4. Susan Rvachew:

   I do think the pandemic situation is bringing into sharper relief the tensions around ownership of lectures, if I were a professor in a university right now, I would be asking my employers to reaffirm that the work that I do is owned by me.

5. H.L. Mencken:

   I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

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