Meaning

1 senses

  1. (colloquial)To finish in the top three at an event or competition.

    The swimmer podiumed three times at the Olympics.

Examples

18 sentences

  1. Tom stepped up to the podium.

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  2. Tom walked back to the podium.

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  3. When cleaning the classroom, a few students carry the podium.

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  4. Tom walked to the podium.

    deTom ging zum Podium. — Melang

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  5. Tom is at the podium.

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Origin

Borrowed from Latin podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “base”), a diminutive of πο

Borrowed from Latin podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “base”), a diminutive of πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of pew.

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Forms

podiums, podiuming, podiumed, podiumed
Base formpodium · to podium
3rd person singularpodiums
Present participlepodiuming
Past simplepodiumed
Past participlepodiumed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypodium
he, she, itpodiums

Past simpleLesson

all personspodiumed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave podiumed
he, she, ithas podiumed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill podium

Word family

2 related words
RelatedfinalA2medalA2

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
podcastpodcasterpodiatristpoemA1poetB1poetessC1poetic

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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