TALKING TO as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a lengthy rebuke
   Synonym(s)
   • lecture (what does lecture mean?)
   • speech (what does speech mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a good lecture was my father’’s idea of discipline
   • the teacher gave him a talking to
   Hypernyms(s) talking to is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • rebuke (what does rebuke mean?)
   • reproof (what does reproof mean?)
   • reproval (what does reproval mean?)
   • reprehension (what does reprehension mean?)
   • reprimand (what does reprimand mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • sermon (what does sermon mean?)
   • preaching (what does preaching mean?)
   • curtain lecture (what does curtain lecture mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • speechify (what does speechify mean?)
   • call on the carpet (what does call on the carpet mean?)
   • rebuke (what does rebuke mean?)
   • rag (what does rag mean?)
   • trounce (what does trounce mean?)
   • reproof (what does reproof mean?)
   • lecture (what does lecture mean?)
   • reprimand (what does reprimand mean?)
   • jaw (what does jaw mean?)
   • dress down (what does dress down mean?)
   • call down (what does call down mean?)
   • scold (what does scold mean?)
   • chide (what does chide mean?)
   • berate (what does berate mean?)
   • bawl out (what does bawl out mean?)
   • remonstrate (what does remonstrate mean?)
   • chew out (what does chew out mean?)
   • chew up (what does chew up mean?)
   • have words (what does have words mean?)
   • lambaste (what does lambaste mean?)
   • lambast (what does lambast mean?)