pulpit
noun
[ ˈpʊlpɪt ]
• a raised enclosed platform in a church or chapel from which the preacher delivers a sermon.
• "many ministers delivered political guidance from their pulpits"
Similar:
stand,
lectern,
platform,
podium,
stage,
staging,
dais,
rostrum,
soapbox,
stump,
box,
dock,
minbar,
ambo,
tribune,
• a raised platform in the bows of a fishing boat or whaler.
Origin:
Middle English: from Latin pulpitum ‘scaffold, platform’, in medieval Latin‘pulpit’.
