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
For that instance of their generosity, the senate granted them the honor of having funeral orations pronounced in the rostrum, in common with patriots and heroes.
The Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago is accepted as the typical Westerner of the forum, the rostrum, and the tribune, as he stood to be inaugurated under the war-cloud in 1861.
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