podium
/ˈpoʊ.di.əm/ noun B2- A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit; any low platform or dais.
- A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly.
- A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize.
- A result amongst the best three at a competition.
- The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheatre, from the top of which the seats began.
- The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.
- The lower portion of a high-rise building, typically of several storeys tall and acts as a foundation to the tower(s) above it.
- A foot or footstalk.
Plural podia
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Scarcely, therefore, had the reflective Franz walked a hundred steps beneath the interior porticoes of the ruin, when, abandoning Albert to the guides (who would by no means yield their prescriptive right of carrying their victims through the routine regularly laid down, and as regularly followed by them, but dragged the unconscious visitor to the various objects with a pertinacity that admitted of no appeal, beginning, as a matter of course, with the “Lions’ Den”, the “Hall of the Gladiators” and finishing with “Cæsar’s Podium”), to escape a jargon and mechanical survey of the wonders by which he was surrounded, Franz ascended a half-dilapidated staircase, and, leaving them to follow their monotonous round, seated himself at the foot of a column, and immediately opposite a large aperture, which permitted him to enjoy a full and undisturbed view of the gigantic dimensions of the majestic ruin.
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