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pedestal

[ped-uh-stl]

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noun

an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.

a supporting structure or piece; base.

Furniture.

a support for a desk, consisting of a boxlike frame containing drawers one above the other.

a columnar support for a tabletop.

Building Trades. a bulge cast at the bottom of a concrete pile.

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verb (used with object)

to put on or supply with a pedestal.

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Idiom

set/put on a pedestal, to glorify; idealize: When we first became engaged each of us set the other on a pedestal.

Origin:
1555–65; alteration of Middle French piedestal < Italian piedestallo, variant of piedistallo literally, foot of stall. See ped-², de, stall¹

Related forms

un·ped·es·tal, verb (used with object), -taled, -tal·ing or (especially British) -talled, -tal·ling.

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Example Sentences

If he thinks he can still lecture us from his pedestal of wisdom, he's wasting our time.

It rests on a display pedestal in the entry to the new facility.

But tourists will not be allowed nearer than the monument's pedestal.

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If he thinks he can still lecture us from his pedestal of wisdom, he's wasting our time.

It rests on a display pedestal in the entry to the new facility.

But tourists will not be allowed nearer than the monument's pedestal.

The man's brain signals traveled via wire from the sensor to a penny-size pedestal on the top of his head.

Those who cannot understand his methodology or his teaching have put him on a pedestal and worship him.

Because the piece is elevated on a pedestal in the middle of a gallery, you can't help but notice it.

California, and mounted it to a rusted steel pedestal from a salvage store.

We were about to be knocked off our egotistical little pedestal once again.

Sump pumps come in two styles, pedestal and submersible.

In the garden outside the chicken coop, a goat stands on a wooden box as if he were a statue on a pedestal.

The salt crystals are almost perfect cubes, and they help form a pedestal that supports the egg.

Even the man that evolutionists hoist up on a pedestal was racist.

Set a piece of outdoor art or a gazing ball on a pedestal among plantings.

Its torso is mounted on an electronics-crammed pedestal.

The legs will be cut off and a new pedestal provided.

But only till the next curve ball throws him off the pedestal.

Home-off-the-range rooms: fabric-covered walls, handmade quilts, pedestal sinks.

Show off a vibrant mix of berries, seeded eucalyptus, and flowers in a pedestal bowl.

Atop a cylindrical pedestal is another glowing ribbon.

It is involves the virtue of living within one's means and not putting materialism on the highest pedestal.

All of them are actual, including tipsy guy laying on the pedestal of the sculpture.

Apricot jam and almond paste makes this basic butter cake worthy of its pedestal.

The missile would be hatched and perched on a pedestal in preparation for launch.

Honestly, a better researched article would have been appreciated rather than put up dirty private companies on a pedestal.

Pedestal stands look cool and minimalist, too, but they won't cut it either.

Your magazine has fallen off it's pedestal in my eyes.

Ford put her on a pedestal and referred to her example throughout his adult life.

But please no revered pedestal or role modeling for students.

It was a ceramic pedestal with a winged cup form sitting on top.

She is angry because she has been knocked off her pedestal.

From a rock pedestal where the conductor might stand, the.

The lower level of the house becomes a pedestal for the top level and an extension of the entry path.

The jaunty fellow with the conductor's baton waving in one hand stands on a pedestal seemingly lost in the music.

Maybe from your pedestal you don't understand down to earth talk.

When the device was to be used, technicians connected the pedestal to a computer with a cable.

But as with many esteemed figures, there are long traces of blood leading to the pedestal.

But we're past our peak as world dominators, and it hurts when you fall off a pedestal.

It wasn't on a pedestal but was standing next to the admission desk.

They are not as rewarded or put on such a pedestal for showing constraint or peace-making.

Both felt that the proper place for a police officer was on a pedestal.

Anyways he has been placed on a high pedestal and hasn't been critiqued enough is my opinion.

He should be congratulated on the disappearance of the pedestal.

He quickly tumbled from that pedestal of national faith.

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World English Dictionary

pedestal (ˈpɛdɪst^əl)

—n
1.	a base that supports a column, statue, etc, as used in classical architecture
2.	a position of eminence or supposed superiority (esp in the phrases place, put,orset on a pedestal)
3.	a. either of a pair of sets of drawers used as supports for a writing surface
	b. (as modifier): a pedestal desk

[C16: from French piédestal, from Old Italian piedestallo, from pie foot + di of + stallo a stall]

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Word Origin & History

pedestal

1563, "base supporting a column, statue, etc.," from M.Fr. piédestal (1547), from It. piedistallo "base of a pillar," from pie "foot" + di "of" + stallo "stall, place, seat." Spelling in Eng. influenced by L. pedem "foot." Fig. sense of put (someone) on a pedestal "regard as highly admirable"

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is attested from 1859.

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Idioms & Phrases

pedestal

see on a pedestal.

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