Hypertext Webster Gateway: "forum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Forum \Fo"rum\, n.; pl. E. {Forums}, L. {Fora}. [L.; akin to
foris, foras, out of doors. See {Foreign}.]
1. A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were
judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
2. A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and
decide causes.
He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the
senate than in the forum. --Brougham.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
forum
n 1: a public meeting or assembly for open discussion
2: a public facility to meet for open discussion [syn: {assembly},
{meeting place}]
3: a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece [syn: {agora},
{public square}]
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