Podium

1. n. The foot.
2. n. A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
3. n. The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.
4. n. The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.