English-French translations for pedestal

• piédestal
  - Le roi des Conseils de ministres, l’Écofin, est tombé avec fracas de son piédestal. . – The Queen of the Councils of Ministers, the Ecofin, has come tumbling off her pedestal with a loud thud.
  Même s'il est difficile d'imaginer que l'on repose Hitler sur son piédestal, le monument de Staline trône toujours, majestueux, sur la place principale de Gori, sa ville natale. While it is difficult today to imagine Hitler being raised onto a pedestal, Stalin's monument stands proudly in the main square of his home town Gori.

Definition of pedestal

• The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp
• A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box
• An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier
• To set or support on a pedestal

Examples

• He has put his mother on a pedestal. You cant say a word against her

Related words

• pedestal fan
• pedestal table
• pedestal plate
• leg; pedestal
• place on a pedestal
• put on a pedestal
• set on a pedestal
• WC pedestal
• put somebody on a pedestal