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Podium   /pˈoʊdiəm/   Listen
noun
Podium  n.  (pl. podia)  
1.
(Arch.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. It is especially employed by archaeologists in two senses:
(a)
The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.
(b)
The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.
2.
(Zool.) The foot.






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"Podium" Quotes from Famous Books



... stone. It consists of four columns and two antae, of the Grecian Ionic order, supporting an entablature and pediment, and forming together one grand portico. To give the requisite elevation, the columns and antae are raised upon pedestals; these, as well as the basement story and podium of the inner wall of the portico, are of Aberdeen granite; the columns and the rest of the front are formed of large blocks of Portland stone. In the front wall, within the portico, there are two ranges of ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 19, No. 531, Saturday, January 28, 1832. • Various

... down, and as regularly followed by them, but dragged the unconscious visitor to the various objects with a pertinacity that admitted of no appeal, beginning, as a matter of course, with the Lions' Den, and finishing with Caesar's "Podium,"), to escape a jargon and mechanical survey of the wonders by which he was surrounded, Franz ascended a half-dilapidated staircase, and, leaving them to follow their monotonous round, seated himself at the foot of a column, and immediately opposite a large aperture, which permitted him ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere



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