ambones
Meaning of ambones
noun
- A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
1918, ‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, page 438)
- A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
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Hyphenation of ambones
am-bones
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- ambones is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of ambones
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