noun a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
— synonyms: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, stump, soapbox
Examples
“1918, ‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, page 438)”