pulpit.
A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
Meaning & usage
A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.
The preaching profession, office, or role in general; the pastorate, the priesthood, the ministry.
Preachers collectively; clergy; the priesthood.
An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate.
He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.
Bully pulpit.
Any lectern, podium, dais, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck; also called bow pulpit. The railing at the stern is sometimes called the stern pulpit or the pushpit.
A bow platform for harpooning.
A plane's cockpit.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”). Doublet of pulpitum and polypus. Piecewise doublet of polypod.
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