pedestal
noun
- a support for a desk, consisting of a boxlike frame containing drawers one above the other.
- a columnar support for a tabletop.
verb (used with object), ped·es·taled, ped·es·tal·ing or (especially British) ped·es·talled, ped·es·tal·ling.
Origin of pedestal
Related Words for pedestal
podium, foundation, bottom, support, bed, platform, stand, base, foot, substructure, mounting, plinthExamples from the Web for pedestal
Contemporary Examples of pedestal
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.
Bow Down, Bitches: How Beyoncé Turned an Elevator Brawl Into a Perfect YearKevin Fallon
December 31, 2014
Almost a decade later Olmstead has stepped down from her pedestal to focus more of her time on sports and friends.
Her very first sculpture, a metallic chrome unicorn aptly titled “Space Oracle,” sits on a pedestal directly in front.
The151-foot newborn waited in the harbor on her 171-foot pedestal, a huge French flag fluttering over her dark copper face.
A delicious marble Cupid appeared to have just alighted on his pedestal at the upper end of the room.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the ShowRobert W. Chambers
February 20, 2014
Historical Examples of pedestal
Some one wrote to me in trouble, ‘When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.’
De ProfundisOscar Wilde
Of course when they saw me I was not on my pedestal, I was in the pillory.
De ProfundisOscar Wilde
On a pedestal beneath the window was placed a marble bust of Dante.
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
The sky was all now—the earth only a background or pedestal for the heavens.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
No ascetic monk, no curled cavalier, looks down from the pedestal.