DAIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dais mean? 

• DAIS (noun)
  The noun DAIS has 1 sense:

1. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

  Familiarity information: DAIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ambo; dais; podium; pulpit; rostrum; soapbox; stump

Hypernyms ("dais" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

 Context examples 

With stately steps and many profound bows, he advanced to the foot of the dais before replying to the prince's question.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I pray you to tell me, Sir John, who are these priests upon the dais?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the centre of the dais were two very high chairs with dorserets, which arched forwards over the heads of the occupants, the whole covered with light-blue silk thickly powdered with golden stars.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A high dais at the further end was roofed in by a broad canopy of scarlet velvet spangled with silver fleurs-de-lis, and supported at either corner by silver rods.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A few rich settles and bancals, choicely carved and decorated with glazed leather hangings of the sort termed or basane, completed the furniture of the apartment, save that at one side of the dais there stood a lofty perch, upon which a cast of three solemn Prussian gerfalcons sat, hooded and jesseled, as silent and motionless as the royal fowler who stood beside them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)