pedestal
Meaning of pedestal
noun
- The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
- A place of reverence or honor.
He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
- A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- A pillow block; a low housing.
- (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.
- (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
verb
To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.
Information about pedestal
- The plural form of pedestal is: pedestals.
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Hyphenation of pedestal
pedestal
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- pedestal is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
pedestal synonyms
Meaning base:
Meaning plinth:
Words that rhyme with pedestal
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