A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
English: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox
podiumEnglish
ambo, catwalk, dais, podium, pulpit
Less common
#11,674 of the corpus · 5.1 per million words · 21,680 occurrences
Noun
Narrow platform extending out into an auditorium
English: catwalk
Less certain link between this word and this sense.