Dais

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.

   “Many of the figures, clad in mail from head to foot, were ranged above the dais; and she could almost fancy a skeleton form beneath, or that wild and fearful eyes glared through the apertures of the closed visors.”

2. isim A bench, a settle, a pew.

   “DAIS, Dess, Deas […] A long board, seat or bench erected against a wall. […] A pew in a church”

3. isim An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.

   “As the principal table was always placed upon a dais, it began very soon, by a natural abuse of words, to be called itself a Dais, and people were said to sit at the dais, instead of at the table upon the dais.”

4. isim The canopy over an altar, etc.
5. isim Dated spelling of dais.
6. isim plural of Dai