English-Italian translations for pedestal

• piedistallo
  Il re dei Consigli di ministri, l’ECOFIN, è caduto dal suo piedistallo con un forte tonfo. . – The Queen of the Councils of Ministers, the Ecofin, has come tumbling off her pedestal with a loud thud.
  Spesso accusata di arroganza, la Commissione è stata invece capace di scendere dal suo piedistallo. Although often suspected of arrogance, the Commission has managed to come down off its pedestal.
  Mentre è difficile oggi immaginare che Hitler venga issato su un piedistallo, il monumento di Stalin si erge orgogliosamente nella piazza più grande della sua città natale, Gori. 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