forums

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forums - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Forum \Fo"rum\, n.; pl. E. Forums, L. Fora. [L.; akin to
     foris, foras, out of doors. See Foreign.]
     1. A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were
        judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
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     2. A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and
        decide causes.
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              He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the
              senate than in the forum.             --Brougham.
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