pedestal
English · Español · Português · 한국어 · Română · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
pedestal
- /ˈpɛdɪstəl/
- /ˈpɛdɪsˌtuːl/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.
noun pedestals
- The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp. The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”
- 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.
- An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
- a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
- A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
- The measured value when no input signal is given.
- The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
- An item upon which television cameras are mounted.
- The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.
verb pedestals · pedestaling · pedestalling · pedestaled · pedestalled
- To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: plinth, footstall, base, stand, basement, bedrock, tower, pylon, platform, support, foot, bed, subbase, postament, understructure, foundation
Translations
Every language
noun the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like
| Español | pedestal, peana |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 台座 daiza |
| 中文 | 台座 táizuò, 基座 jīzuò, 座子 zuòzi |
| Português | pedestal |
| Français | piédestal |
| Deutsch | Sockel, Podest, Piedestal, Postament, Stand, Basis |
| Italiano | piedistallo |
| Română | piedestal |
| Русский | пьедеста́л pʹjedestál, постаме́нт postamént, цо́коль cókolʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | bệ |
| العربية | عَمُود ʕamūd, حامِل ḥāmil, مِنَصَّة minaṣṣa |
| עברית | כַּן kan |
Talk about this word "pedestal." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pedestal. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pedestal. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pedestal "pedestal." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pedestal.Cite this
@misc{pedestal_2026,
title = {pedestal},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pedestal},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
