Definition of "ambo" []

• One of the two raised stands in early Christian churches from which parts of the service were chanted or read. (noun)

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• "The altar, like the ambo is now given greater substantiality and gravitas."
• "I had many opportunities of communicating with the natives of Rumbo, and they have clearly a peculiar dialect, resembling exactly what you mention of substituting the final o for a, as in the word ambo for amba."
• ""Plus which, there are a lot more people on duty at casualty than we have and we're dealing with 10 or 20 or 30 times the calls the ambo are.""