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say it: PLAT-fawrm
platform is a noun meaning "a raised horizontal surface". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a raised horizontal surface
“the speaker mounted the platform”
a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
“their candidate simply ignored the party platform”
“they won the election even though they offered no positive program”
the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system
any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons
military
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for platform come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.