Definitions for Forum

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Forum fo·rum

Spelling: [fawr-uh m, fohr-uh m]

IPA: /ˈfɔr əm, ˈfoʊr əm/

Forum is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Forum (fmoru).

Definitions for Forum

noun

1. the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
2. a court or tribunal:
3. an assembly, meeting place, television program, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest.
4. Also called online forum, Internet forum, Web forum. message board.
5. the Forum, the forum in the ancient city of Rome.
6. a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages:
7. an online discussion group that is maintained on such a website:

Origin of Forum

1425-75; late Middle English Latin: marketplace, public place, akin to forīs, forās outside, foris door

Examples for Forum

After his death, Jackson tried to speak up for her friend on a Facebook forum.

The three stones were set up to keep chariots out of the forum.

This is a forum for the voices defining the global struggle for justice.

Chris Brown announced onstage at The forum in Los Angeles on Friday night.

These posts are still available in archives that are only viewable to privileged members of the forum.

There were a number of people who could have convened a forum of Charter 77, or meetings with other, smaller opposition groups.

This forum of the people was shaded by a sextette of well-grown elms.

forum, the place of general assembly in a Roman city, as the Agora was in a Greek.

"Thou shalt burn in the forum for this," spluttered the Judge.

It is the modern substitute for the forum of the old Roman town.