Pedestal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PEDESTAL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to provide with an architectural support
• set or support on a pedestal
NOUN:
• the base or support on which a statue, obelisk, or column is mounted
• each of the two supports of a kneehole desk or table.
• the supporting column or base of a washbasin or toilet pan
• a position in which someone is greatly or uncritically admired
• base supporting a column, statue, etc
• The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.
• A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
• A pillow block; a low housing.
• An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
• a support or foundation
• a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
• an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to provide with an architectural support or base

Words related to PEDESTAL

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How to use PEDESTAL in a sentence

• The historian who seeks to pull down a hero from the pedestal on which he has been seated for ages plays a losing game.
• Some of the altars are made of fine Pyrenean marble, and the Empress Eugenie is said to have given the wooden image of the Virgin on the pedestal.
• On the stage just as in the novel, the heroines are placed on a sort of pedestal where they receive haughtily the incense and homage of poor mankind.
• For herself he set her on no pedestal, he did not worship her, he did not love her, he admired her with the cold judgment of a man of taste.
• The length of the column was apparently about five hundred feet, and the pedestal of sandstone on which it stood was itself upwards of two hundred feet high.
• It is of bronze, and stands on a granite pedestal, of size disproportionate to the height and bulk of the figure.
• To-day a railroad wound around the base of its pedestal, reminding it of the new order of things and of its own antiquity.
• The mother is seated in a natural and not ungraceful attitude on a rough square pedestal.
• Each is supported by an angel, and on the pedestal of the king his will is inscribed in letters of gold, upon a black marble slab.
• It rests on a ball firmly placed on a massive pedestal, which is easily moved from one place to another by means of small wheels.
• There was a stone pedestal with a small lead figure perched upon the top of it in the small clear space in the middle.
• If successful, he will be put upon a pedestal for his clever deceit, and crowned with laurels because of his lie.
• The soldier bears civilization on his back, he supports all the rest, he is the pedestal which bears without complaint the civilian as an idle ornament.
• This pedestal should be made in two parts, having hinges, and a hook, to fasten them together.
• It rests on a pedestal, and is supported on each side by female figures.
• His host immediately brought it and placed it on a small pedestal near Miss Temple.
• And, above it, the woman of marble, composed and blind on the high pedestal, seemed to ward off the devouring night with a cluster of lights.
• It is well to keep a man conscious that you are a refined and delicate-minded woman, yet do not insist upon being worshipped on a pedestal.
• Heretofore she had been the envy of the entire set, and it wounded her deeply to fall from that pedestal to the level of ordinary people.
• He stands behind the center of it, colorless, motionless, like a bust on a pedestal.
• Well, in the land and cattle boom a few years ago he was picked up and set on a pedestal.
• With us, woman is treated as something apart, something on a pedestal.
• The Louvre was still open and I was fortunate enough to see the Venus of Milo, though a day or two after I believe it was taken from its pedestal and carefully concealed.
• But Theodosia was always placed on a pedestal on which there was no room at all for Harriet.
• Undoubtedly Nick had stepped off his pedestal that day.

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