noun

• A low platform for a lectern, seats of honor, or a throne.

  ‘The gazes of all in the room followed Lamar as she ascended the steps of the dais and stood in front of the throne, facing them.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘She stood on the dais and placed her hands on the waist high posts.’
  • ‘Martin stood on the dais where the lectern usually sat, a low brazier to either side.’
  • ‘Only when I was standing on the dais did I feel that I had the title wrapped up.’
  • ‘He wore a sparkling clean salvar kemeez, and sat on a magnificent throne raised on a mahogany dais above platform 1.’
  • ‘The king sat upon a dais and Lione stood before him and told the story of the crimes the Brotherhood had committed.’
  • ‘Were they not inhibited Anglo-Saxons and had he been in their midst rather than standing on a raised dais, they would have assuredly hugged him.’
  • ‘She glanced at CJ standing up on the dais and then back down to the boy running toward her from the bottom of the steps.’
  • ‘Behind the two ancient thrones and their dais, there was a tapestry on the wall.’
  • ‘Three other thrones also occupied the dais, but only one was filled.’
  • ‘He had been standing between the throne dais and the baron's chair.’
  • ‘James pointed over to the daises where a man and woman sat on thrones with Marlin slightly behind them.’
  • ‘Sniggering was heard from the other knights standing by the throne dais.’
  • ‘There was a fitting moment when Ryan called the team Captain, Steven Price, to the presentation dais to receive the trophy with him.’
  • ‘The pontiff spoke from a dais overlooking throngs who cheered ‘You are home’ after he was raised to the altar by a lift.’
  • ‘From the dais, each name and age is called out over the loudspeaker.’
  • ‘He ascended the dais to receive his prize. His freedom.’
  • ‘A handful of men are sitting cross-legged on the raised dais of the communal eating area, weapons by their side, while we take a table on the main floor.’
  • ‘Mills, at 18 the baby of the team, dissolved into tears on the medal dais even before the Australian flag was raised.’
  • ‘The four-poster bed, not against the wall, was raised on a dais.’

  Synonyms

  platform, stage, podium, rostrum, stand, grandstand, staging, apron, soapbox, stump

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