Ambo
WordNet
noun
(1) A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From late Latin ambo, from (ambon).
Noun
- A raised platform in an early Christian church; a podium or pulpit.
- 1918: ‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 438)
- 1997: the Emperor arrived and instead of moving directly to his seat climbed to the top level of the ambo, the great three-decker pulpit of polychrome marble. — John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (Penguin 1998, p. 150)