FORUM (fora)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: fora   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does forum mean? 

• FORUM (noun)
  The noun FORUM has 2 senses:

1. a public meeting or assembly for open discussion

2. a public facility to meet for open discussion

  Familiarity information: FORUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public meeting or assembly for open discussion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

group meeting; meeting (a formally arranged gathering)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A public facility to meet for open discussion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

assembly; forum; meeting place

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

facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)

 Context examples 

You seem to be taking care of everything you need by going through back channels rather than by listing your needs on a public forum or on social media.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Function: Provide a national scientific forum to identify research opportunities and to provide recommendations on research priorities, resource needs, and how best to address them across the range of issues in AIDS-related malignancies.

(AIDS-Related Malignancies Working Group, NCI Thesaurus)

FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy.

(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, NCI Thesaurus)

BioCarta offers an easy and dynamic forum for information exchange and collaboration between researchers, educators and students.

(BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus)

A group founded to provide a forum to critically assess different techniques used in microarray data mining.

(Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

The International Society of Preventive Oncology (ISPO) is the forum of an international membership committed to the study of interactive etiologic factors in cancer development and their impact on prevention, detection, and management of neoplastic diseases.

(International Society of Preventive Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)