Other forms: podiums
A podium is a raised stand for a speaker, a conductor or a winner. Step up to the podium, a podium finish, on the podium.
In sport it means the top three places, so a podium finish is third or better. Americans often use it for the stand a speaker's notes rest on, which the British call a lectern.
1nounpodiumA raised stand for a speaker or a winner.
“She took the podium to a room that had gone quiet.”
podium is a stand.
Latin podium comes from Greek podion, a little foot or base, from pous, a foot; it is a doublet of pew.
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Borrowed from Latin podium. Borrowed from Latin podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (“base”), a diminutive of πούς (“foot”). a doublet of pew.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA