Pulpit

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable
2. Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.
   metonymically, uncountable
3. The preaching profession, office, or role in general; the pastorate, the priesthood, the ministry.
   metonymically, uncountable
4. Preachers collectively; clergy; the priesthood.
   metonymically, uncountable
5. An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate.
   countable, metonymically
6. Bully pulpit.
   broadly
7. Any lectern, podium, dais, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
   countable
8. 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.
   countable
9. A bow platform for harpooning.
   countable
10. A plane's cockpit.
    UK, dated, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete⟳ honesty.”

“[H]is `Amens' were ejected at the pulpit with the severity of a reprimand.”

“He seems like⟳ too timid a man to fill⟳ the pulpit at such a large church.”

“[Hooper:] Will you just please⟳ go to the end⟳ of the pulpit! [Brody:] What for? [Hooper:] I need⟳ to have⟳ something in the foreground to give⟳ it some scale. [Brody:] Foreground, my ass!”

“In the slang of the Royal Air Force⟳ man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.”

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