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noun
- 1. a raised platform on which a person stands to make a public speech, receive an award or medal, play music, or conduct an orchestra: "speaker after speaker stepped up to the rostrum"
- 2. a beaklike projection, especially a stiff snout or anterior prolongation of the head in an insect, crustacean, or cetacean: "these beetles are very easily recognized by the rostrum or beak"
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Rostrum, a "raised platform for speakers," goes back to the collecting of war souvenirs by the ancient Romans. Warships in those days had pointed beams, called "beaks," sticking out from the bows. They were used to ram and sink enemy ships.
Rostrum most commonly means a kind of platform for public speaking. Close synonyms are podium and lectern. A pulpit can also be called a rostrum. Rostrum also has a few very different meanings. In biology, a rostrum is a beak or beaklike part.
ROSTRUM definition: 1. a raised surface on which a person making a speech or a music conductor (= leader) stands 2. a…. Learn more.
Rostrum, originally "animal snout or bird's beak" in Latin, has a back-and-forth history. The word came to be used for the battering beak at a warship’s bow. The ancient Romans used beaks from captured ships to decorate a platform from which orators could speak, called the rostra, the plural of rostrum.
ROSTRUM meaning: 1. a raised surface on which a person making a speech or a music conductor (= leader) stands 2. a…. Learn more.
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.
Definition of rostrum noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define rostrum. rostrum synonyms, rostrum pronunciation, rostrum translation, English dictionary definition of rostrum. n. pl. ros·trums or ros·tra 1. A dais, pulpit, or other elevated platform for public speaking. 2. a. The curved, beaklike prow of an ancient Roman ship,...
ROSTRUM definition: a raised surface that someone stands on to make a speech or receive a prize. Learn more.
Origin rostrum (1500-1600) Latin “beak, front part of a ship”, from rodere; → RODENT. rostrum meaning, definition, what is rostrum: a small platform that you stand on when ...: Learn more.
