What does Forum mean?
Definitions for Forum
ˈfɔr əm, ˈfoʊr əm; ˈfɔr ə, ˈfoʊr əfo·rum
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Princeton's WordNet
forumnoun
a public meeting or assembly for open discussion
forum, assembly, meeting placenoun
a public facility to meet for open discussion
Wiktionary
forumnoun
A place for discussion.
forumnoun
A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
forumnoun
A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
forumnoun
An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
Trish was an admin member on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.
Etymology: From forum.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FORUMnoun
Any publick place.
Etymology: Latin.
The forum was a publick place in Rome, where lawyers and orators made their speeches before the proper judge in matters of property, or in criminal cases, to accuse or excuse, to complain or defend. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.
Close to the bay great Neptune’s fane adjoins,
And near a forum flank’d with marble shines,
Where the bold youth, the num’rous fleets to store,
Shape the broad sail, or smooth the taper oar. Alexander Pope.
ChatGPT
forum
A forum is a public meeting place or platform for open discussion or expression of ideas. It can refer to a physical location, such as a town meeting or community gathering, or a digital platform, like a message board or social networking site, where users communicate about specific topics.
Webster Dictionary
Forumnoun
a market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people
Forumnoun
a tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes
Etymology: [L.; akin to foris, foras, out of doors. See Foreign.]
Wikidata
Forum
A forum was a public square in a Roman municipium, or any civitas, reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls. Many forums were constructed at remote locations along a road by the magistrate responsible for the road, in which case the forum was the only settlement at the site and had its own name, such as Forum Popili or Forum Livi.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Forum
fō′rum, n. a market-place, esp. the market-place in Rome, where public business was transacted and justice dispensed: the courts of law as opposed to the Parliament. [L., akin to foras, out of doors.]
The Roycroft Dictionary
forum
A safety-valve for letting out superfluous air. _E. g._, "Let the Forum always be open to the people, and let the treasury always be open to us."--From Titus Livy's _Psychology of the First Contractor_.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
forum
[Usenet, GEnie, CI$; pl. fora or forums] Any discussion group accessible through a dial-in BBS, a mailing list, or a newsgroup (see the network). A forum functions much like a bulletin board; users submit postings for all to read and discussion ensues. Contrast real-time chat via talk mode or point-to-point personal email.
Editors Contribution
forum
A location for discussion.
The forum for debate was used respectfully and responsibly.
Submitted by MaryC on March 11, 2020
British National Corpus
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Rank popularity for the word 'Forum' in Nouns Frequency: #1901
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Forum in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Forum in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Forum in a Sentence
All police departments should seek mechanisms of accountability and transparency. Accountability through academic studies and reports is beneficial, but there is no real substitute for local democratic accountability in a public and transparent forum.
Moving forward at The FCC will bring much-needed clarity to Section 230 and close the loopholes that Big Tech has exploited, these reforms will promote' a forum for a true diversity of political discourse,' as Congress envisioned when it passed Section 230, without limiting the First Amendment rights of any speaker.
I think it was better to have cancelled the forum, than to have legitimized the views of such a candidate, but these types of events are very important. So I’m a little disappointed that it was cancelled.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:
As you know, we have recently met at the World Energy Forum. The forum was highly effective, in particular in the context of our contacts. Cooperation between Russia and Turkey is of special significance.
The Geneva forum should be a 'workshop' for agreeing on the outlines of Syria's future secular statehood and for determining the ways of reaching that, but not an 'eastern bazaar' with elements of crude blackmail in respect of the international community, by issuing ultimatums, the Riyadh group, it seems, is trying to mask the fact it has no concrete and realistic proposals.
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- المنتدى, منتدىArabic
- форум, свободна дискусияBulgarian
- fòrumCatalan, Valencian
- fórumCzech
- forumDanish
- ForumGerman
- forumo, kunvenoEsperanto
- foroSpanish
- تالار گفتگو, فروم, انجمنPersian
- forumFrench
- foroGalician
- मंचHindi
- ֆորումArmenian
- foro, forumItalian
- פורוםHebrew
- フォーラム, 伝言板, 討論, 討論会Japanese
- 토론, 포럼Korean
- forumLatin
- marae āteaMāori
- forum, foraNorwegian
- forumPolish
- fórumPortuguese
- forRomanian
- форумRussian
- forumSwedish
- ఫోరమ్Telugu
- tartıştay, yazışmalık, forum, divan, münteda, müzakere yeriTurkish
- 论坛Chinese
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