Pedestal

Quick meaning: Pedestal is a noun meaning (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

Meaning

(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
2. (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
3. (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
4. (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
5. (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
6. (telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
7. (electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.

Example Sentences

He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.

But India is also where the Mahatma may have fallen furthest from the pedestal.

The state reached a deal with the city to remove the 40-foot granite pedestal the Lee statue sat on for more than a century.

The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”

Word Forms

• pedestals
• pedestaling
• pedestalling
• pedestaled
• pedestalled

Synonyms for pedestal

Depending on context, synonyms include base, stand, plinth, footstall.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plinth, footstall, base, stand, basement, bedrock.

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