- a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- Architecture.
- a low wall forming a base for a construction, as a colonnade or dome.
- a stereobate for a classical temple, especially one with perpendicular sides.
- the masonry supporting a classical temple.
- a raised platform surrounding the arena of an ancient Roman amphitheater having on it the seats of privileged spectators.
- lectern.
- a counter or booth, as one at an airport for handling tickets or dispensing information.
- a foot.
- a footstalk or stipe.
- (in a sports competition) to finish first, second, or third and receive an award while standing on a podium: He’s podiumed in five of his past six races.
- a combining form meaning “footlike part” of an organism, used in the formation of compound words: monopodium; pseudo-podium.
- a small raised platform used by lecturers, orchestra conductors, etc; dais
- a plinth that supports a colonnade or wall
- a low wall surrounding the arena of an ancient amphitheatre
- zoology
- the terminal part of a vertebrate limb
- any footlike organ, such as the tube foot of a starfish
- a part resembling a foot
