forum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A place, meeting, or website where people exchange ideas and opinions.

   The conference offered a forum for scientists to share their research.

2. 2
   noun

   An online message board where users post and discuss topics.

   She asked for advice on a gardening forum.

Simplified etymology

Forum comes from Latin forum, literally “what is out of doors.” In Latin it was used to mean “marketplace” and later “meeting place,” and it belongs to the family of Latin foris, “out of doors, outside.”

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero and door.

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