What is another word for hustings?

Pronunciation: [hˈʌstɪŋz] (IPA)

Hustings, often used to refer to a political campaign or a platform for candidates, has many synonyms that can be used interchangeably depending on the context. Some of these synonyms include stump, podium, soapbox, platform, dais, rostrum, tribune, and stage. While all of these words have similar meanings to hustings, each one has its own specific connotation and may be more suitable in different situations. For example, "stump" may be used to describe a candidate's speeches made on the campaign trail, while "soapbox" has a more informal and grassroots feel. Knowing these synonyms can help writers and speakers vary their language and avoid repetition.

What are the hypernyms for Hustings?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Hustings?

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Usage examples for Hustings

"One's opponent at the hustings is pretty much the same thing as one's adversary at a game,-he is against you to-day, and may be your partner to-morrow; so that, putting even better motives aside, it were bad policy to treat him as an implacable enemy," said Lord Claude, with his accustomed suavity.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
So Boone went out upon the hustings with none of the eager zest of his anticipations.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Perhaps even more so; there were those who said that he carried the style of the rostrum and the hustings into the house of prayer.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller

Famous quotes with Hustings

  • If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men. If you can do one you can do the other. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers, tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lectures, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, your honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.
    Clarence Darrow
  • I want to thank Sian [Berry, Green Party] and Lindsey [German, Left List] and Alan [Craig, Christian Peoples Party] and Gerard [Batten, UKIP], who have sometimes joined us for hustings, but mainly I want to thank my two colleagues in the strange triumvirate who have been trundling around London's church halls and TV studios violently disputing the meaning of multiculturalism and the exact cost of conductors. On which point I think I'm going to declare victory.
    Boris Johnson

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