English noun: talking to | |||
| 1. | talking to (communication) a lengthy rebuke | ||
| Samples | A good lecture was my father's idea of discipline. The teacher gave him a talking to. | ||
| Synonyms | lecture, speech | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | curtain lecture, preaching, sermon | ||