Ambo

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  • noun. A raised speaking stand in a church, especially such a stand in early Christian churches serving as a lectern or pulpit.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In early Christian churches and basilicas, a raised desk or pulpit from which certain parts of the service were read or chanted and sermons were preached.
  • noun. In anatomy, a circumferential fibrocartilage; a fibrocartilaginous ring surrounding an articular cavity, as the glenoid fossa of the scapula and the cotyloid fossa of the innominate bone. Also written ambon.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An ambulance driver.
  • noun. An ambulance.
  • noun. A raised platform in an early Christian church; a podium or pulpit.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
    • Word Usage
    "The altar, like the ambo is now given greater substantiality and gravitas."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    platform  
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