Definition of sermon

• n. - A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
• n. - Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
• n. - Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
• v. i. - To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
• v. t. - To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
• v. t. - To tutor; to lecture.