platform

About 15.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
2. noun A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
3. noun A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.

   This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.

4. noun Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
5. noun A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
6. noun A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers.
7. noun A specific stopping place on one of multiple tracks at a station, numbered or otherwise named.
8. noun Ellipsis of platform shoe (“a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles”).

Similar words

program chopine chopines political platform political program weapons platform staging venue arena gallery

Often followed by

of and for to in was is on with

Word family

platform shoe platform sole platforms