rostrum
noun
any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
rostrums
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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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They suck food through strawlike beaks called rostrums.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
It's incredible how focused and single-minded you have to be, and how hard you have to train, even to think about going to the Olympics, let alone standing on any rostrums.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
Statesmen on public rostrums do not of course speak so plainly.
From Time Magazine Archive
How often were they declaimed from the school rostrums in the days, dear reader, when you and I were young!
From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
