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platform
- /ˈplætfɔːm/ UK
- /ˈplɑtfɔːm/ UK
- /ˈplætfɔɹm/ US
Rhymes with -ætfɔː(ɹ)m
Where it comes from
From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.
noun platforms
- A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made. Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.
- A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
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A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.
This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.
Similar: tribune
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Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
Hidgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.
Similar: foundation, stage
- A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks. Now if the earth could be enjoyed in such a manner as every one might have provision, as it may by this platform I have offered, then will the peace of the commonwealth be preserved, and men need not act so hypocritically as the clergy do, and others likewise, to get a living.
- A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers. We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
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A specific stopping place on one of multiple tracks at a station, numbered or otherwise named.
“Well, there you are, boy. Platform nine — platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they don’t seem to have built it yet, do they?”
Similar: track
- Ellipsis of platform shoe (“a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles”). Now open the album cover! How fabulous! The four of them [the Pointer Sisters] in platforms of death, tacky gowns, and "reflections of."
- A software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, or cloud computing. Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
- A particular operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software; a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used for running other software. That program runs on the X Window System platform.
- Ellipsis of car platform (“a set of components shared by several vehicle models”). A car platform consists of the underbody, suspension, and axles, plus components such as the steering mechanism, engine, and powertrain. Using such a platform, a car company can design several distinct car models to suit different customer groups[…]
- A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion. Wave erosion causes a sea cliff to migrate landward, leaving a gently sloping surface, called a wave-cut platform. A wave-built platform originates by deposition at the seaward margin of the wave-cut platform.
- A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
- A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. His destruction intended by queene Quendred, hir platforme of the practise to kill him.
- A sidewalk.
verb platforms · platforming · platformed
- To furnish with or shape into a platform […] upon a smiling knoll platformed by Nature […]
- To place on, or as if on, a platform. And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After—platforming his chin / On the palm left open.
- To place a train alongside a station platform. There he was welcomed onboard Vivarail's new three-car battery-powered train and Porterbrook's HydroFLEX hydrogen-powered train, which had been platformed side-by-side to showcase the potential of these low-carbon alternative technologies.
- To include in a political platform Among them I scarcely can plot out one truth / Plain enough to be platformed by some voting sleuth / And paraded before the precinct polling-booth.
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To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
We want to platform the larger, unspoken issue of menstrual health and hygiene of women at work, and how we as a society need to start taking cognizance of it and start adopting measures to help our women workforce navigate it with ease.
Opposite: deplatform, no-platform
- To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm. But serious movies are not necessarily good movies. A studio that decides to platform a film had better be sure the film will get the necessary good reviews and audience approval. Otherwise, like United Artists' "A Small Circle of Friends," which was platformed around the same time as "The Elephant
- To form a plan of; to model; to lay out. I have ſaid what is meet to ſome who do not think it for the eaſe of their inconſequent Opinions, to grant that Church-Diſcipline is platform'd in the Bible, but that it is left to the diſcretion of Men.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: program, chopine, chopines, political platform, political program, weapons platform, staging, venue, arena, gallery, context, forum, instrument, outline, agenda, structure
Translations
Every language
noun stage for speeches and performances
| 한국어 | 연단 yeondan |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 演壇 endan |
| 中文 | 講壇 /讲坛 jiǎngtán, 講臺 /讲台 jiǎngtái |
| हिन्दी | मंच mañc |
| Português | plataforma |
| Français | scène, podium |
| Deutsch | Plattform, Podest |
| Italiano | piattaforma |
| Ελληνικά | εξέδρα exédra |
| Română | podium, scenă, estradă |
| Русский | помо́ст pomóst, по́диум pódium, платфо́рма platfórma, эстра́да estráda |
| العربية | مِنَصَّة minaṣṣa |
| עברית | בָּמָה bamà |
noun raised floor for any purpose
| हिन्दी | चबूतरा cabūtrā |
|---|
noun figurative: place or opportunity to express one's opinion
| Português | plataforma |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Plattform |
| Русский | трибу́на tribúna, платфо́рма platfórma |
noun something that allows an enterprise to advance: foundation or stage
| Русский | платфо́рма platfórma |
|---|
noun politics: political stance on a broad set of issues
| Español | programa |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 政党の綱領 seitō no kōryō |
| 中文 | 政綱 /政纲 zhènggāng |
| Português | plataforma |
| Français | programme |
| Deutsch | Programm, Parteiprogramm, Grundsatzprogramm |
| Ελληνικά | πλατφόρμα platfórma |
| Русский | платфо́рма platfórma |
| עברית | מַצָּע matsa' |
noun travel: raised structure for passengers
| Español | andén, plataforma |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 플랫폼 peullaetpom, 플랫홈 peullaethom, 홈 hom, 플랫트홈 peullaet'teuhom, 승강장 seunggangjang, 타는 곳 taneun got |
| 日本語 | プラットホーム purattohōmu, ホーム hōmu, 歩廊 horō, 乗り場 noriba |
| 中文 | 月臺 /月台 yuètái, 站臺 /站台 zhàntái |
| हिन्दी | चबूतरा cabūtrā, प्लेटफ़ॉर्म pleṭfŏrm |
| Português | plataforma |
| Français | quai |
| Deutsch | Bahnsteig |
| Italiano | banchina |
| Ελληνικά | αποβάθρα apováthra |
| Română | peron, chei |
| Русский | перро́н perrón, платфо́рма platfórma |
| Tiếng Việt | sân ga |
| العربية | رَصِيف raṣīf, مِنَصَّة minaṣṣa |
| עברית | רְצִיף r'tsif |
noun high shoe type — see also platform shoe
| Português | salto plataforma |
|---|---|
| Русский | платфо́рма platfórma |
noun computing: a specific operating system or environment; a specific type of computer or microprocessor
| Español | plataforma |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 플랫폼 peullaetpom |
| 日本語 | プラットフォーム purattofōmu |
| 中文 | 平臺 /平台 píngtái |
| Português | plataforma |
| Français | plateforme |
| Deutsch | Plattform |
| Italiano | piattaforma |
| Русский | платфо́рма platfórma |
| Tiếng Việt | nền tảng |
| العربية | مِنَصَّة minaṣṣa |
noun geology: flat expanse of rock
| Português | plataforma |
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@misc{platform_2026,
title = {platform},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/platform},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
