dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox
(noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
soapbox
(noun) a crate for packing soap
Source: WordNet® 3.1
soapbox (plural soapboxes)
(literally) A crate for packing soap.
(figuratively) Any physical or media platform which gives prominence to the person on it and the views they espouse.
(figuratively) A talk about one's pet topic (or the topic itself), especially when only tangentially relevant to an ongoing discussion.
A soapbox car.
soapbox (third-person singular simple present soapboxes, present participle soapboxing, simple past and past participle soapboxed)
To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox.
Source: Wiktionary
2 July 2025
(noun) getting something back again; “upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
