ambo

/หˆรฆm.bษ™สŠ/

IPA: /AE1 M B OW0/

noun
  1. 1

    A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.

    โ€œ1918, โ€˜It will get better somehow,โ€™ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest. โ€” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, page 438)โ€

  2. 2

    A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.

noun
  1. 1

    An ambulance driver.

  2. 2

    An ambulance.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambo