Fo·rum n.; pl. E. Forums L. Fora
  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.
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