Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A position, especially a public office, from which one may expound one's views to a wide audience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An exceptionally advantageous position from which to extol one's ideas; -- applied especially to the presidency of the United States, which was described thus by President Theodore Rossevelt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US an advantageous
position from which to express one'sviews
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From bully, splendid (probably coined by Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to the presidency as a bully pulpit, (“splendid pulpit”) from which he could expound his views like a preacher).]
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bully pulpit.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
ecbrenner commented on the word bully pulpit
"A bully pulpit is a public office of sufficiently high rank that provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter. The bully pulpit can bring issues to the forefront that were not initially in debate, due to the office's stature and publicity." --Wikipedia
March 17, 2009