Crossword clues for forums
forums
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forum \Fo"rum\, n.; pl. E. Forums, L. Fora. [L.; akin to foris, foras, out of doors. See Foreign.]
A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of forum English)
Usage examples of "forums".
The ghostcallers who performed in the open-air forums were mostly fakes: crowds paid to see skin and a great deal of gratuitous thrashing about, and to feel a thrill of danger without ever actually experiencing any.
He let Elen get a little ahead as they went down the long empty passage between the closed, sleeping houses and the open galleries of the teaching forums, and said quietly to Sagai, “Shiskan son Karadon didn’t want to kill us.
I had wondered why the control staff took so little interest in our forums and the Utopian society.
Only once before had so many people attended our forums, when Dreiser had addressed us.
Now the viewscreens, the discussion forums, the recreation hours, the coffee debates, the public opinion polls, the conversations of lovers can turn to other things.
A habit, a routine like the discussion forums and the sports and the therapy hours.
He knew Rome's piazzas, fountains, forums, triumphal arches, temples, not for their historical background but for the nationality of the women who made these areas their headquarters.