platform
A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
Other meanings
A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.
“This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.”
A kind of
- horizontal surface
Kinds of platform
- auction block
- outdoor stage
- pulpit
- deck
- fly floor
- landing
- landing stage
- launching pad
Related words
- abrasion platform
- aerial work platform
- bay platform
- cross-platform
- dance platform
- deplatform
- diving platform
- elevating work platform
- flatform
- inner-platform effect
- interplatform
- intraplatform
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "forma" (fōrma).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “platform” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.