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発音

• enPR: po͝ol′-pĭt, pŭl′-pĭt
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈpʊlpɪt/, /ˈpʌlpɪt/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈpʉlpɪt/
• 韻: -ʊlpɪt, -ʌlpɪt
• ハイフネーション: pul‧pit

名詞

pulpit (plural pulpits)

1. (Christianity, countable) A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
   • 1915, Russell H. Conwell, Robert Shackleton, chapter IV, in Acres of Diamonds‎, His Life and Achievements:

     Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 12:

     [H]is `Amens' were ejected at the pulpit with the severity of a reprimand.

2. (metonymic, chiefly Christianity)
   1. (uncountable) Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.
   2. (uncountable) The preaching profession, office, or role in general; the pastorate, the priesthood, the ministry.
   3. (uncountable) Preachers collectively; clergy; the priesthood.
   4. (countable) An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate.

      He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.

3. (by extension) Bully pulpit.
4. (countable) Any lectern, podium, dais, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
5. (countable, nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck; also called bow pulpit. The railing at the stern is sometimes called the stern pulpit or the pushpit.
6. (countable, nautical) A bow platform for harpooning.
   • 1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws:

     [Hooper:] Will you just please go to the end of the pulpit!
     [Brody:] What for?
     [Hooper:] I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale.
     [Brody:] Foreground, my ass!

7. (UK military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit.
   • 1941 March 24, Life, page 85:

     In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

同意語

• (place or occasion for public speaking or for expounding one's views): platform; soapbox; (uncommon) tribune
• (dated British slang for cockpit): office; see also cockpit

派生語

関連する語

• ambo

語源

Borrowed from Latin pulpitum.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpulpit/

名詞

pulpit

1. A pulpit (podium for religious oratory)
2. A podium for non-religious oratory.
3. (rare) A seat in a church for royalty.

派生した語

• English: pulpit
• Scots: poopit, poupit
• → Welsh: pulpud

参照

• “pulpit, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 January 2019.