[ˈsəːmən], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service and based on a passage from the Bible
(e.g: I preached my first sermon on original sin)

- a long or tedious piece of admonition or reproof; a lecture
(e.g: he understood that if he said any more he would have to listen to another lengthy sermon)


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Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘speech, discourse’): from Old French, from Latin sermo(n-) ‘discourse, talk’