Definitions for rostrum

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rostrum ros·trum

Spelling: [ros-truh m]

IPA: /ˈrɒs trəm/

Rostrum is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in rostrum (morrstu).

Definitions for rostrum

noun

1. any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
2. a pulpit.
3. a beaklike projection from the prow of a ship, especially one on an ancient warship for ramming an enemy ship; beak; ram.
4. Roman Antiquity. (in the forum) the raised platform, adorned with the beaks of captured warships, from which orations, pleadings, etc., were delivered.
5. Biology. a beaklike process or extension of some part; rostellum.
6. British Theater. a raised platform or dais, especially one with hinged sides that can be folded and stored within a relatively small space.

Origin of rostrum

1570-80; Latin rōstrum snout, bill, beak of a bird, ship's prow (in plural, speaker's platform), equivalent to rōd(ere) to gnaw, bite (cf. rodent) + -trum instrumen

Examples for rostrum

The unroofed porch of the tavern served Flagg for a rostrum that day.

Then Roscius mounted the rostrum, but not a man would give ear to him.

It was hard not to get mixed messages from the rostrum, too.

Rostral: pertaining or attached to a rostrum; specifically of Hemiptera.

The professor then took his place again on the rostrum, with the pointer in his hand.

That nominee had three challenges as he took the rostrum in Tampa.

The doctor dropped down from his rostrum as if his task were done.

The Baroness, to tell the truth, waddled rather than stepped to the rostrum.

Every knot of men had its grievance; every flag in the pavement was a rostrum.

And finally, as capacity was reached, he came to the rostrum.