Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Forum

Forum , noun

[Latin; 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