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Definition: Rostrum |
RostrumNoun1. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it. 2. Beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rostrum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Etymology: Rostrum \Ros"trum\ (-tr[u^]m), noun; plural Latin Rostra, English Rostrums. [Latin, beak, ship's beak, from rodere, rosum, to gnaw. See Rodent.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Rostrum A pulpit; properly the beak of a ship. In Rome, the pulpit from which orators addressed the public was ornamented with the rostra or shipprows taken from the Carthaginians. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A rostrum (Latin beak) is an anatomical structure resembling a bird's beak, such as part of the carapace of a crustacean. Since the rostrum is typically located about the thorax of an arthropod, it is differentiated from the cauda or tail.
A rostrum is the platform a speaker stands on while giving a speech.
A Rostrum club consists of members who meet to improve their skills in public speaking and meeting procedure. Each club is part of a larger non-profit organisation that promotes and facilitates the improvement of public speaking skills.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rostrum."
Synonyms: RostrumSynonyms: ambo (n), dais (n), podium (n), pulpit (n), snout (n), soapbox (n), stump (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: rostrums (general). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Front | Brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut; rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib. |
School | Pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rostrum |
| English words defined with "rostrum": Abatvoix ♦ Rostellum, Rostra, Rostral, Rostrulum, Rostrums ♦ Sounding-board. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rostrum": Official Reporters. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rostrum": Tenuiroster. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rostrum" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (beak, bill of a bird). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Masons around rostrum at George Washington memorial service, and cornerstone-laying ceremony, at the Masonic Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia] / Underwood & Underwood, Inc., Washington. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., standing at rostrum, opening the San Francisco Conference, with Mayor Roger Lapham and Governor Earl Warren seated to his right, and Alger Hiss seated to his left. Honor guard and flags of all nations in backg. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | This is where Malcolm X was standing when assassins struck--Note bullet holes in rostrum / World Telegram & Sun p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Stanley Wolfson.. |  | The Amphitheatre and Rostrum, National Cemetery, Arlington. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rostrum in [Soldiers'] National Cemetery, Gettysburg. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rostrum, National Military Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Elizabeth City Hall, Elizabeth, New Jersey. Council chamber, axis to rostrum. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Arlington National Cemetery. Rostrum of Arlington National Cemetery Amphitheater from left side. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again at the rostrum. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | To speak from this same historic rostrum is a sobering experience. |
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| "Rostrum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rostrum" is used about 148 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 148 | 25,903 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "rostrum": victory rostrum. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rostrum | 18 |
design rostrum | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rostrum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tribunë (dais, forum, scaffold, Tribune), katedër (chair, desk). (various references) | |
Arabic | منقار سفينة حربية قديمة, منصة (bench, dais, dispatch box, foretop, gallery, platform, podium, ringside, stage, staging, stand, trestle, tribune), منبر خطابة, منبر (platform, stand, tribune). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трибуна (grandstand, platform, stand), клюн (beak, bill, nib), зурла (muzzle, snout), подиум (dais, platform, podium, stage), извит нос на кораб. (various references) | |
Chinese | 主席臺 (platform). (various references) | |
Czech | řeèništì. (various references) | |
Danish | tribune (speaker's platform), podium (platform, podium). (various references) | |
Dutch | tribune (platform, podium, speaker's platform, stage). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tribuno (speaker's platform). (various references) | |
Faeroese | røðarapallur (speaker's platform), talarastólur (speaker's platform). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوزه (Beak, Muzzle, Nozzle, Snout), منقار (Beak, Bill, Gouge), منبر (Pulpit, Tribune), کرسی خطابه , تاج (Corona, Crest, Crown). (various references) | |
Finnish | koroke (dais, island, platform, podium, stand). (various references) | |
French | tribune. (various references) | |
German | Rednerbühne (platform, speaker's platform), Tribüne (platform, speaker's platform, stand, tribune). (various references) | |
Greek | βήμα (footstep, gait, pace, pas, step, stride). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szónoki emelvény (hustle, rostra, tribune), hajóorr (bows, prow, rostra, stem). (various references) | |
Italian | rostro (beak), tribuna degli oratori (podium), tribuna (platform, scene, stage, stand, Tribune), podio degli oratori (podium), podio (platform, podium, stand), becco (beak, bill, billygoat, cuckold, lip, Neb, nozzle, spout). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 論壇 (the world of criticism), "壇 (platform), 壇 (mandala, platform, podium). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ろ" " (conclusion, the world of criticism, verdict), え" " (engagement, marriage proposal, platform, round shot, smoke bomb), " (body, company, failure, flight of steps, grade, group, level, mandala, party, platform, podium, rank, stair, step, troupe). (various references) | |
Manx | crannag (dock, heap, lookout, pulpit, tribune). (various references) | |
Papiamen | tribuna (speaker's platform). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ostrumray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tribuna (baignoire, cockloft, gallery, hayloft, haymow, loft, orlop, scaffold, scaffolding, speaker's platform, tribune). (various references) | |
Romanian | tribunã (grand stand, grandstand, stage, stand, Tribune), prorã (fore, head, nose, prow), estradã (dais, estrade, platform, scaffold, stage, stand), cioc (bang, beak, bill, Buss, click-clack, click-click, goatee, knock, mouth, nib, nose, nozzle, pecker, sip, snout, spout, tuft). (various references) | |
Russian | трибуна (grandstand, hustings, reviewing stand, stand, tribune), клюв (beak, bill, nib, pecker), нос корабля (bow, head, prow, stem). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pult (drop counter, lectern, stand), kljun (beak, bill, neb, nib, ram), govornica (hustings, platform, pulpit, stump). (various references) | |
Spanish | tribuna de oradores (podium), tribuna (gallery, grandstand, platform, scaffold, Tribune), tarima (dais, scaffold). (various references) | |
Swedish | talarstol (hustings, platform, stump). (various references) | |
Turkish | söylev kürsüsü, kadırganın kıvrık ucu, kürsü (bench, chair, dais, desk, green table, lectern, professorial chair, professorship, pulpit, stand, Tribune), gaga şeklinde çıkıntı, gaga (beak, bill, nib, rostrate, trap). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kafedra (pulpit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трибуна (grandstand, platform), ніс корабля, дзьоб (beak, pecker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tribunal. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rostrum": rostrums. (additional references) | |
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"Rostrum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arisarum, grossraum, prosternum, rastron, Rawstron, rosarium, Rossdhu, rostro, rostroum, Rostrun, rostum, Rustum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rostrum" (pronounced rÄ"strum) |
| 5 | -s t r u m | angstrom, maelstrom. |
| 4 | -t r u m | spectrum, tantrum. |
| 3 | -r u m | arum, Aurum, pilgrim, quorum, conundrum, decorum, durum, forum, fulcrum, harem, serum, theorem. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-o-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: rumors, tumors. | |
-2 letters: morts, murrs, roust, routs, rumor, storm, stour, strum, torus, tours, tumor. | |
-3 letters: mors, mort, most, mots, murr, must, muts, orts, ours, oust, outs, roms, rots, rout, rums, rust, ruts, smut, sort, sour, stum, sumo, toms, torr, tors, tour. | |
-4 letters: mor, mos, mot, mus, mut, oms, ors, ort, our, out, rom, rot. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-o-r-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: rostrums. | |
+2 letters: trimerous. | |
+3 letters: arboretums, courtrooms, durometers, microburst, mortuaries, numerators, overtrumps, ruminators, tambourers. | |
+4 letters: burgomaster, enumerators, formulators, furthermost, importuners, masturbator, meritorious, microbursts, moisturizer, moratoriums, motortrucks, outperforms, scriptorium, temerarious, tetramerous, urinometers. | |
+5 letters: burgomasters, compurgators, crematoriums, eurythermous, fluorimeters, fluorometers, macropterous, masturbators, masturbatory, mercurations, meretricious, moisturizers, precomputers, procurements, promulgators, reformulates, remunerators, scriptoriums, superstardom, thunderstorm. | |
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