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pedestal
pedestal is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.
- 2noun
A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- 3noun
A pillow block; a low housing.
- 4noun
An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
- 5noun
a support or foundation
"the base of the lamp"
- 6noun
an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
- 7noun
a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
"they put him on a pedestal"
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