talking to

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

noun

a lengthy rebuke
- a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline
- the teacher gave him a talking to
• Syn:
lecture, speech
• Derivationally related forms:
speechify (for: speech), lecture (for: lecture)
• Hypernyms:
rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand
• Hyponyms:
sermon, preaching, curtain lecture