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Another word for lectern

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Noun
      1. A piece of furniture typically having a flat or sloping top for writing and often drawers or compartments.
      2. A table, counter, or booth at which specified services or functions are performed:
      3. A department of a large organization in charge of a specified operation:
      1. To rise to an upright position on the feet.
      2. To assume or maintain an upright position as specified:
      3. To maintain an upright position on the feet.
      1. An elevated platform, lectern, or stand used in preaching or conducting a religious service.
      2. Clerics considered as a group.
      3. The ministry of preaching.
      1. A dais, pulpit, or other elevated platform for public speaking.
      2. The curved, beaklike prow of an ancient Roman ship, especially a war galley.
      3. The speaker's platform in an ancient Roman forum, which was decorated with the prows of captured enemy ships.
      1. An elevated platform, as for an orchestra conductor or public speaker.
      2. A stand for holding the notes of a public speaker; a lectern.
      3. A low wall serving as a foundation.
      1. A horizontal surface raised above the level of the adjacent area, as a stage for public speaking or a landing alongside railroad tracks.
      2. A vessel, such as a submarine or an aircraft carrier, from which weapons can be deployed.
      3. An oil platform.
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Sentence Examples

  • He tapped the lectern on which the Oracle was busy writing in her book.

  • He strode to the lectern where the massive book was perched.

  • The room of the Sanctuary where he materialized consisted of nothing more than a lectern holding a massive book possessed by a long-dead Oracle.

  • Gabe strode to the lectern and watched the words of the Present being written across the pages.

  • Jewel's works were published in a folio in 1609 under the direction of Bancroft, who ordered the Apology to be placed in churches, in some of which it may still be seen chained to the lectern; other editions appeared at Oxford (1848, 8 vols.) and Cambridge (Parker Soc., 4 vols.).

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