sermon
noun
[ ˈsəːmən ]
• a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service and based on a passage from the Bible.
• "I preached my first sermon on original sin"
Similar:
homily,
address,
speech,
talk,
discourse,
oration,
lesson,
preaching,
teaching,
peroration,
• a long or tedious piece of admonition or reproof; a lecture.
• "he understood that if he said any more he would have to listen to another lengthy sermon"
Similar:
lecture,
tirade,
harangue,
diatribe,
speech,
disquisition,
monologue,
declamation,
exhortation,
reprimand,
reproach,
reproof,
scolding,
admonishment,
admonition,
reproval,
remonstration,
upbraiding,
castigation,
lambasting,
criticism,
censure,
spiel,
telling-off,
talking-to,
rap over the knuckles,
dressing-down,
earful,
roasting,
bawling-out,
blast,
row,
ticking off,
carpeting,
rollicking,
wigging,
rating,
bollocking,
Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘speech, discourse’): from Old French, from Latin sermo(n- ) ‘discourse, talk’.
