Pulpit

Quick meaning: Pulpit is a noun meaning Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.

Meaning

Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.

More Meanings

1. The preaching profession, office, or role in general; the pastorate, the priesthood, the ministry.
2. Preachers collectively; clergy; the priesthood.
3. An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate.
4. (by extension) Bully pulpit.
5. (countable) Any lectern, podium, dais, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
6. (Christianity, countable) A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
7. (countable, nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck; also called bow pulpit. The railing at the stern is sometimes called the stern pulpit or the pushpit.

Example Sentences

He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.

[H]is `Amens' were ejected at the pulpit with the severity of a reprimand.

In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

[Hooper:] Will you just please go to the end of the pulpit! [Brody:] What for? [Hooper:] I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale. [Brody:] Foreground, my ass!

Word Forms

• pulpits

Synonyms for pulpit

Depending on context, synonyms include platform, soapbox, tribune, office, cockpit, dais.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ambo, dais, podium, rostrum, soapbox, stump.

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