- ROSTRUM Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
To celebrate a great naval victory, the Romans gathered the beaks of the losers' ships They hung them in back of the speaker's platform in the Forum in Rome The Latin word for the ship's beak was rostrum The plural, rostra, soon came to be used for the speaker's platform
- Rostrum (anatomy) - Wikipedia
Rostrum (from Latin rostrum, meaning beak) is a term used in anatomy for several kinds of hard, beak -like structures projecting out from the head or mouth of an animal
- ROSTRUM | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
ˈrɑs·trəm Add to word list a podium (Definition of rostrum from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
- rostrum - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Learned borrowing from Latin rōstrum (“beak, snout”), from rōd (ō) (“gnaw”) + -trum, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- + *-trom The pulpit sense is a back-formation from the name of the Roman Rōstra, the platforms in the Forum where politicians made speeches
- Rostrum - definition of rostrum by The Free Dictionary
lectern, podium, dais, rostrum - A lectern is the stand on which the speaker's notes are placed, the podium is the platform on which the speaker and lectern stand, a dais is a platform for several people, and a rostrum is a platform for one or more
- ROSTRUM definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
A rostrum is a raised platform on which someone stands when they are speaking to an audience, receiving a prize, or conducting an orchestra As he stood on the winner's rostrum, he sang the words of the national anthem
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Definition of rostrum noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
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