Forum

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fo=rum

CIDE DICTIONARY

Forum, n. [L.; akin to foris, foras, out of doors. See Foreign.].

•  A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.  [1913 Webster]
•  A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes.  [1913 Webster]

  "He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Forum, n.
1 a place of or meeting for public discussion.
2 a periodical etc. giving an opportunity for discussion.
3 a court or tribunal.
4 hist. a public square or market-place in an ancient Roman city used for judicial and other business.

Etymology

L, in sense 4

THESAURUS

Forum

Areopagus, agora, airing, amphitheater, analysis, arena, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, athletic field, auditorium, background, ball, bear garden, board, bowl, boxing ring, brawl, bull ring, buzz session, campo, campus, canvas, canvassing, caucus, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colloquium, colosseum, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, consideration, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, course, curia, dance, date, debate, debating, deliberation, dialectic, dialogue, diet, discussion, discussion group, eisteddfod, examination, exchange of views, festivity, fete, field, floor, forgathering, gathering, get-together, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hippodrome, housewarming, inquisition, investigation, joint discussion, judicatory, judicature, judiciary, levee, lists, locale, logical analysis, logical discussion, market, market cross, marketplace, mart, mat, meet, meeting, milieu, open discussion, open forum, palaestra, panel, panel discussion, parade ground, party, piazza, pit, place, platform, plaza, plenum, precinct, prize ring, prom, public square, purlieu, quorum, rally, range, rap, rap session, reception, rendezvous, review, rialto, ring, round table, scene, scene of action, scenery, seance, seminar, session, setting, shindig, sit-in, site, sitting, soiree, sphere, square, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, study, symposium, synod, terrain, the Inquisition, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, town meeting, treatment, tribunal, turnout, ventilation, walk, wrestling ring

ROGET THESAURUS

Forum

Tribunal

N tribunal, court, board, bench, judicatory, court of justice, court of law, court of arbitration, administrative court, inquisition, guild, justice seat, judgment seat, mercy seat, woolsack, bar of justice, dock, forum, hustings, bureau, drumhead, jury box, witness box, senate house, town hall, theater, House of Commons, House of Lords, statehouse, townhouse, assize, eyre, wardmote, burghmote, barmote, superior courts of Westminster, court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error, High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Star Chamber, Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty, Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court, sessions, quarter sessions, petty sessions, court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council, board of green cloth, court martial, drumhead court martial, durbar, divan, Areopagus, Irota, judicial, appellate, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.

School

N school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, Lyceum, institute, institution, palaestra, Gymnasium, class, seminar, day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school, school of art, kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory, pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune, school book, horn book, text book, grammar, primer, abecedary, rudiments, manual, vade mecum, encyclopedia, cyclopedia, Lindley Murray, Cocker, dictionary, lexicon, professorship, lectureship, readership, fellowship, tutorship, chair, School Board Council of Education, Board of Education, Board of Studies, Prefect of Studies, Textbook Committee, propaganda, scholastic, academic, collegiate, educational, ex cathedra.