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.