Definition of "pulpit" [pul•pit]

• An elevated platform, lectern, or stand used in preaching or conducting a religious service. (noun)
• Clerics considered as a group. (noun)
• The ministry of preaching. (noun)
• An elevated metal guardrail extending around the bow or stern of a yacht or other small vessel. (noun)
• An elevated platform, such as one used by harpooners in a whaling boat. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Feminists have told a bunch of lies, and their pulpit is the classroom of the colleges and universities, where they tell you that it is an "opportunity" to work and a disadvantage to be at home."
• "The name derives from a saying of Mohammed (of which there are many variants), Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the"
• "It is not easy to define what that subtle something is which we call pulpit magnetism."