pulpit

Speech parts

1. pulpit - Noun

2. pulpit - Adjective

Meaning

An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.

The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.

A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.

Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tribune ambo podium stump dais rostrum soapbox ministry terrace rabbinate office stage forum chancel apostleship
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Antonyms

challenge roof settle calm

Hypernyms

platform

Related terms

ambo

Phrases with the word

early christian pulpit pulpit orator stern pulpit pulpit pounder

Examples

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. Edmund Burke

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. Slick Rick

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. Herman Melville

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell. Jimmy Swaggart

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth. Richard Salter Storrs

Let the devil into church and he will climb into the pulpit. Latvian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

pulpiness pulping liquor pulpish pulpit orator pulpit pounder pulpital