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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forum \Fo"rum\, n.; pl E. {Forums}, L. {Fora}. [L.; akin to foris, foras, out of doors. See {Foreign}.] 1. A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried and orations delivered to the people. 2. A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes. He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum. --Brougham. From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: fora pl.n. Plural of {forum}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: fora {forum}
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