PULPIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pulpit mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULPIT (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 ("pulpit" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

 Context examples 

One scarcely sees a clergyman out of his pulpit.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Why, it's them that, not content with printin' lies on paper an' preachin' them out of pulpits, does want to be cuttin' them on the tombstones.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When Miss Mills undertook the office and returned with Dora, exhorting us, from the pulpit of her own bitter youth, to mutual concession, and the avoidance of the Desert of Sahara!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And although I could not consent to go and hear that little conceited fellow deliver sentences out of a pulpit, I recollected what he had said of M. Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I look from Mr. Chillip, in his Sunday neckcloth, to the pulpit; and think what a good place it would be to play in, and what a castle it would make, with another boy coming up the stairs to attack it, and having the velvet cushion with the tassels thrown down on his head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Before that period, as I understand, the pews were only wainscot; and there is some reason to think that the linings and cushions of the pulpit and family seat were only purple cloth; but this is not quite certain.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Of my walking so proudly and lovingly down the aisle with my sweet wife upon my arm, through a mist of half-seen people, pulpits, monuments, pews, fonts, organs, and church windows, in which there flutter faint airs of association with my childish church at home, so long ago.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)