Sermon

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈsɜːmÉ™n/
• US IPA: /ˈsɝmÉ™n/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)mÉ™n

Origin

Latin sermō.

Full definition of sermon

Noun

1. Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 3, One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis … interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
2. A lengthy speech of reproval.

Verb

1. (poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
2. (poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
• 1607, William Shakespeare, , II. ii. 177:Come, sermon me no further.

Anagrams

• merons