rostrum
noun
any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
rostra
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pluralof rostrum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Twelve thousand words long,* it was handed to clerks in the House and Senate who intoned it from the nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those shrews are reddish, large-skulled, large-toothed, and have rostra that are large in proportion to the size of the skull as a whole.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley
Here, and elsewhere in the play, 'the market-place' is the Forum, and the rostra provided there for the purposes of public speaking Shakespeare calls 'pulpits.'
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
