Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pulpit
IPA transcription: [p'ʊlpɪt]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox
    Meaning: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
Usage examples
  • The preternatural pomposities of the pulpit
  • The next instant the pulpit was no longer empty.
  • To stand up in that pulpit and speak about myself!
  • It went farther; it made its appearance in the pulpit.
  • But the temporary wooden pulpit erected over the church-door was still empty.
  • As she reached the bench-like altar, extending in front of the pulpit, she slipped to her knees a moment.
  • THREE months had gone by since the Sunday morning when Dr. Bruce came into his pulpit with the message of the new discipleship.
  • Opposite to the singing-seats towered the pulpit, from which the clergyman looked down upon us like a sparrow upon the house-top.
  • Perhaps for the first time in our modern politics, the pulpit vied with the press, and the Church with the campaign club, in the work of debate and propagandism.
  • That expectation rather than any spell from the accustomed wail of psalmody was what made silence and expectation seem to spread like a paling solemn light over the multitude of upturned faces, all now directed towards the empty pulpit.