Definitions for pedestal

pedestal ped·es·tal

Spelling: [ped-uh-stl]
IPA: /ˈpɛd ə stl/

Pedestal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 388 anagrams from letters in pedestal (adeelpst).

Definitions for pedestal

noun

  1. an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
  2. a supporting structure or piece; base.
  3. Furniture. a support for a desk, consisting of a boxlike frame containing drawers one above the other. a columnar support for a tabletop.
  4. Building Trades. a bulge cast at the bottom of a concrete pile.

Idioms

  1. set / put on a pedestal, to glorify; idealize:

verb (used with object)

  1. to put on or supply with a pedestal.

Origin of pedestal

1555-65; alteration of Middle French piedestal Italian piedestallo, variant of piedistallo literally, foot of stall. See ped-2, de, <

Examples for pedestal

Her very first sculpture, a metallic chrome unicorn aptly titled “Space Oracle,” sits on a pedestal directly in front.

Almost a decade later Olmstead has stepped down from her pedestal to focus more of her time on sports and friends.

No ascetic monk, no curled cavalier, looks down from the pedestal.

The sky was all now—the earth only a background or pedestal for the heavens.

But whereas we used to be satisfied gazing on that perfection as it stood up on a pedestal, now we want it down among us.

Some one wrote to me in trouble, ‘When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.’

A delicious marble Cupid appeared to have just alighted on his pedestal at the upper end of the room.

Of course when they saw me I was not on my pedestal, I was in the pillory.

The151-foot newborn waited in the harbor on her 171-foot pedestal, a huge French flag fluttering over her dark copper face.

On a pedestal beneath the window was placed a marble bust of Dante.

Word Value for pedestal
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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