Pedestal is valid Scrabble Word

Is pedestal a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is pedestal valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

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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Words that contain PEDESTAL

pedestals12 pedestaled14 pedestaling15 pedestalled15 pedestalling16

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.

Similar words containing PEDEST without suffix al

pedestals12 pedestaled14 pedestrian13 pedestaling15 pedestalled15 pedestrians14 pedestalling16 pedestrianise16 pedestrianism18 pedestrianize25 pedestrianised18 pedestrianises17 pedestrianisms19 pedestrianized27 pedestrianizes26 pedestrianising19 pedestrianizing28

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