Dais

Quick meaning: Dais is a noun meaning The canopy over an altar, etc.

Meaning

The canopy over an altar, etc.

More Meanings

1. A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.
2. (historical, northern British) A bench, a settle, a pew.
3. (obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.

Example Sentences

DAIS, Dess, Deas […] A long board, seat or bench erected against a wall. […] A pew in a church

A dais wife is a woman who sits at a round table with the wives of other men who are seated on the dais. Her husband sits on the dais, raised above the other people in the room, including his wife.

Many of the figures, clad in mail from head to foot, were ranged above the dais; and she could almost fancy a skeleton form beneath, or that wild and fearful eyes glared through the apertures of the closed visors.

The daises of the Northwest Colonnade and the South Temple of the Warriors, the Mercado benches, and the benches of the Southeast Patio of the Iglesia are other instances where large groups of individuals in processions are shown.

Word Forms

• daises

Synonyms for dais

Depending on context, synonyms include podium, rostrum, pulpit, stump, ambo, soapbox.

Related Words

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