Dais vs. Pulpit

A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.

A bench, a settle, a pew.

(obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.

The canopy over an altar, etc.

The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.

A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.

A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.

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

A dais or daïs ( or , American English also but sometimes considered nonstandard) is a raised platform at the front of a room or hall, usually for one or more speakers or honored guests.Historically, the dais was a part of the floor at the end of a medieval hall, raised a step above the rest of the room. On this, the master of the household or assembly (e.g.

A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.

Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit.

A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker.

(nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as a stern pulpit; other texts use the perhaps more appropriate term pushpit.

A bow platform for harpooning.

A plane's cockpit.

An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.

Example: ‘I stand like a clerk in my pulpit.’;

The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.

Example: ‘I say the pulpit (in the sober useOf its legitimate, peculiar powers)Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand,The most important and effectual guard,Support, and ornament of virtue's cause.’;

A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.

Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

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

a raised enclosed platform in a church or chapel from which the preacher delivers a sermon

Example: ‘many ministers delivered political guidance from their pulpits’;

religious teaching as expressed in sermons

Example: ‘the movies could rival the pulpit as an agency moulding the ideas of the mass public’;

a raised platform in the bows of a fishing boat or whaler.

a guard rail enclosing a small area at the bow of a yacht.

A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin pulpitum (platform or staging).