Usually means: Base supporting a statue or column.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word pedestal:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedestal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pedestal: Merriam-Webster
  3. pedestal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pedestal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pedestal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pedestal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pedestal, pedestal: Wordnik
  8. pedestal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pedestal: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. pedestal: Wiktionary
  11. pedestal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. pedestal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. pedestal: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Pedestal, pedestal: Dictionary.com
  15. pedestal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. pedestal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Pedestal (disambiguation), Pedestal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Pedestal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. pedestal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. pedestal: Rhymezone
  21. Pedestal, pedestal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. pedestal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. pedestal: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pedestal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pedestal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedestal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pedestal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedestal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedestal: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedestal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pedestal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  3. Pedestal: Construction Glossary
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Pedestal, Pedestal: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See pedestaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
noun:  (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
noun:  (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
noun:  (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
noun:  (telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
noun:  (electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.
noun:  (aviation) The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
noun:  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:  To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

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