pulpit

From Middle English pulpit, from Latin pulpitum (“platform”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʊl.pɪt/, /ˈpʌl.pɪt/

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pulpit (plural pulpits)

1. A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.
2. 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.
3. A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
4. (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.
5. A bow platform for harpooning.
6. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit.
   • 1941 March 24, Life, p. 85:

     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’.

• (dated British slang for cockpit): office; see also cockpit

• wayside pulpit

• ambo

• pulpet, pollepyt, pullpite, polepitt, pulpitte, pulpytt, pulpette, pulpite

Borrowed from Latin pulpitum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulpit/

pulpit

1. A pulpit (podium for religious oratory)
2. A podium for non-religious oratory.
3. (rare) A seat in a church for royalty.

• English: pulpit
• Scots: poopit, poupit

• “pulpit (n.) id=MED35179” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-18.

From Latin pulpitum (“platform”).

pulpit m inan

1. desktop (the main graphical user interface of an operating system)