rostrum

noun

ˈrä-strəm How to pronounce rostrum (audio)
Definition of rostrumnext
as in podium
a level usually raised surface stood on a rostrum to address the huge crowd

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Recent Examples of rostrum Guests at Brookfield Zoo can identify her in Dolphin Bay by her distinctive features, including faint white lines along the sides of her head and chest, pink coloration on the underside of her slender rostrum, and gray ventral side. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Helena Newman, Sotheby’s chairman of both Europe and Impressionist and modern art, took to the rostrum for the second part of the sale. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2026 This floor should be where the decisions are made, not that rostrum. — Patrick Anderson, The Providence Journal, 8 May 2026 Her interest began when a green sawfish rostrum was donated to the university’s National Marine Science Centre. — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for rostrum
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podium
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  • All six podium finishers at Berlin were also wearing the same shoe, a showing even more impressive than when all three men’s medal runners at the 2016 Olympics wore the original Nike Vaporfly.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 1 Nov. 2026
  • This is just the latest variation on a particular theme by the architects at bKL Architecture — a tower raised above a roof deck atop a low-rise podium.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of podium

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