English-Portuguese translations for pedestal

• pedestal
  Não deveríamos colocar­nos num pedestal. We should not put ourselves on a pedestal.
  Até a Marianne caía abaixo do seu virgíneo pedestal!Marianne would topple from her virginal pedestal.
  A rainha dos Conselhos de Ministros, o ECOFIN, caiu estrondosamente do seu pedestal. . – The Queen of the Councils of Ministers, the Ecofin, has come tumbling off her pedestal with a loud thud.

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