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Antonyms for pedestal

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ped-uh-stl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛd ə stl

Definition of pedestal

Origin :
  • 1560s, "base supporting a column, statue, etc.," from Middle French piédestal (1540s), from Italian piedistallo "base of a pillar," from pie "foot" + di "of" + stallo "stall, place, seat," from a Germanic source (see stall (n.1)).
  • Spelling in English influenced by Latin pedem "foot." An Old English word for it was fotstan, literally "foot-stone." Figurative sense of put (someone) on a pedestal "regard as highly admirable" is attested from 1859.
  • noun support for something
Example sentences :
  • Some one wrote to me in trouble, ‘When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.’
  • Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
  • Of course when they saw me I was not on my pedestal, I was in the pillory.
  • Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
  • On a pedestal beneath the window was placed a marble bust of Dante.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The sky was all now—the earth only a background or pedestal for the heavens.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • No ascetic monk, no curled cavalier, looks down from the pedestal.
  • Extract from : « Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia » by Various
  • She hastily arose and was about to step down from her pedestal when the door opened.
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • This shaft is placed on a pedestal which makes it in all some 115 feet in height.
  • Extract from : « Italy, the Magic Land » by Lilian Whiting
  • The height of the statue, including the pedestal, was nearly forty feet.
  • Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) » by Various
  • In the preceding paragraph she did not seem to be on a pedestal.
  • Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
  • There's a pedestal in the flower-garden where the Psyche stood.
  • Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever

Synonyms for pedestal

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