Pedestal
noun
A base or support on which something stands.
The statue stood on a large marble pedestal.
Often appears as...
- marble pedestal
- tall pedestal
noun
A position in which someone is greatly or uncritically admired.
Our society puts celebrities on a pedestal.
Often appears as...
- on a pedestal
- put on a pedestal
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A base or support on which something stands.
The statue stood on a large marble pedestal.
Often appears as...
- marble pedestal
- tall pedestal
noun
A position in which someone is greatly or uncritically admired.
Our society puts celebrities on a pedestal.
Often appears as...
- on a pedestal
- put on a pedestal
Usage tips
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Refers to an actual object designed to support something else, often decorative.
The ancient vase was displayed on a wooden pedestal.
Pro Tip 2/3Visibility Importance
Used to elevate something, making it more visible or significant.
The award was placed on a pedestal at the front of the room.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to mean giving importance to something or someone.
The community held the firefighters on a pedestal for their bravery.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Refers to an actual object designed to support something else, often decorative.
The ancient vase was displayed on a wooden pedestal.
Pro Tip 2/3Visibility Importance
Used to elevate something, making it more visible or significant.
The award was placed on a pedestal at the front of the room.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to mean giving importance to something or someone.
The community held the firefighters on a pedestal for their bravery.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Object
Refers to an actual object designed to support something else, often decorative.
The ancient vase was displayed on a wooden pedestal.
Pro Tip 2/3Visibility Importance
Used to elevate something, making it more visible or significant.
The award was placed on a pedestal at the front of the room.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to mean giving importance to something or someone.
The community held the firefighters on a pedestal for their bravery.
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Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...
It was about a boyfriend. The girl on the top, she'd kissed the wrong boy, and they'd started having a fight. And there was a very, very beautiful lesson for me in If I was going to photograph these people in the dignified, respectful way that I had intended, and put them on a pedestal, I had to understand them.
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Poetry makes people...
for me they've been led to believe that poetry can only be written by certain types of people for certain types of people about very specific subjects part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little bit more approachable and accessible there's
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What It Takes to Be an...
be easy to put these people up on a pedestal they think of them as hero almost superhuman and while talent plays a role and these people's feats and their successes it's not what makes their ideas of reality it's grit creativity passion kindness and love that's the human spirit
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Anne Curzan: What makes...
which suggests that all dictionaries are exactly the same. Consider the library here on campus, where you go into the reading room, and there is a large, unabridged dictionary up on a pedestal in this place of honor and respect lying open so we can go stand before it
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How I use art to tackle...
It's fully my intention to care for this garbage, to exalt it, put it on a pedestal and to curate it. We have all seen devastating images of animals dying with plastic in their bellies. And it's so important for us to really see those and to take those in.
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Roxane Gay: Confessions...
in favor of supporting white, middle- and upper-class straight women. Listen, if that's good feminism -- I am a very bad feminist. There is also As a feminist, I feel a lot of pressure. We have this tendency to put visible feminists on a pedestal.
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Why are blue whales so...
They need legs shaped like stout pedestals to hold their bodies up against gravity. In water, the situation is quite different. Buoyancy counteracts the gravitational pull on the body and their great bulk is therefore partially supported
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Leana Wen: What your...
Being totally transparent is scary. You feel naked, exposed and vulnerable, but that vulnerability, that humility, it can be an extraordinary benefit to the practice of medicine. When doctors are willing to step off our pedestals,
Video examples
The psychology of...
So what causes narcissism? Twin studies show a strong genetic component, although we don't know which genes are involved. But environment matters, too. Parents who put their child on a pedestal can foster grandiose narcissism.
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Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
will not recognize their own egg if it falls out of that mud pedestal their own nest it just becomes an object that means nothing to them but when it's inside that nest scrape it's an object to Beach other cherished
Video examples
Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous...
It was about a boyfriend. The girl on the top, she'd kissed the wrong boy, and they'd started having a fight. And there was a very, very beautiful lesson for me in If I was going to photograph these people in the dignified, respectful way that I had intended, and put them on a pedestal, I had to understand them.
Video examples
Poetry makes people...
for me they've been led to believe that poetry can only be written by certain types of people for certain types of people about very specific subjects part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little bit more approachable and accessible there's
Video examples
What It Takes to Be an...
be easy to put these people up on a pedestal they think of them as hero almost superhuman and while talent plays a role and these people's feats and their successes it's not what makes their ideas of reality it's grit creativity passion kindness and love that's the human spirit
Video examples
Anne Curzan: What makes...
which suggests that all dictionaries are exactly the same. Consider the library here on campus, where you go into the reading room, and there is a large, unabridged dictionary up on a pedestal in this place of honor and respect lying open so we can go stand before it
Video examples
How I use art to tackle...
It's fully my intention to care for this garbage, to exalt it, put it on a pedestal and to curate it. We have all seen devastating images of animals dying with plastic in their bellies. And it's so important for us to really see those and to take those in.
Video examples
Roxane Gay: Confessions...
in favor of supporting white, middle- and upper-class straight women. Listen, if that's good feminism -- I am a very bad feminist. There is also As a feminist, I feel a lot of pressure. We have this tendency to put visible feminists on a pedestal.
Video examples
Why are blue whales so...
They need legs shaped like stout pedestals to hold their bodies up against gravity. In water, the situation is quite different. Buoyancy counteracts the gravitational pull on the body and their great bulk is therefore partially supported
Video examples
Leana Wen: What your...
Being totally transparent is scary. You feel naked, exposed and vulnerable, but that vulnerability, that humility, it can be an extraordinary benefit to the practice of medicine. When doctors are willing to step off our pedestals,
Video examples
The psychology of...
So what causes narcissism? Twin studies show a strong genetic component, although we don't know which genes are involved. But environment matters, too. Parents who put their child on a pedestal can foster grandiose narcissism.
Video examples
Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
will not recognize their own egg if it falls out of that mud pedestal their own nest it just becomes an object that means nothing to them but when it's inside that nest scrape it's an object to Beach other cherished
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Quote examples
Bubba Wallace
American Driver
We are ambassadors. We are leaders of our own brands, and then in life things are thrown at you, you have to stand up for what's right. That brings on a whole new role. It's not on the front of the agenda that you see, but if you read the fine print it's part of becoming an athlete and the pedestal you get with that.
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John Sexton
American Educator
It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.
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Sandra Bullock
American Actress
I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.
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Jonathan Shapiro
South African Cartoonist
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
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Jim Carrey
Canadian Comedian
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
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Tim Minchin
Australian Comedian
When you become successful, half the population puts you on a pedestal, and half the population treats you with less respect than you would have got if you were collecting their bins.
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Madonna Ciccone
American Musician
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
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Althea Gibson
American Athlete
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
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Katherine Jenkins
Welsh Musician
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American Judge
A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
Quote examples
Bubba Wallace
American Driver
We are ambassadors. We are leaders of our own brands, and then in life things are thrown at you, you have to stand up for what's right. That brings on a whole new role. It's not on the front of the agenda that you see, but if you read the fine print it's part of becoming an athlete and the pedestal you get with that.
Quote examples
John Sexton
American Educator
It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.
Quote examples
Sandra Bullock
American Actress
I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.
Quote examples
Jonathan Shapiro
South African Cartoonist
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
Quote examples
Jim Carrey
Canadian Comedian
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Quote examples
Tim Minchin
Australian Comedian
When you become successful, half the population puts you on a pedestal, and half the population treats you with less respect than you would have got if you were collecting their bins.
Quote examples
Madonna Ciccone
American Musician
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
Quote examples
Althea Gibson
American Athlete
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
Quote examples
Katherine Jenkins
Welsh Musician
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
Quote examples
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American Judge
A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
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