Synonyms for pedestal
ˈpɛd ə stlpedestal

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1. base, pedestal, standnoun

   a support or foundation

   "the base of the lamp"

   Synonyms:
   standstill, al-Qaeda, sales booth, groundwork, al-Qaida, rack, point of view, theme, basis, fundament, standpoint, nucleotide, foundation, viewpoint, radical, root, floor, footstall, substructure, foot, understructure, alkali, cornerstone, base, stall, outdoor stage, bandstand, home, stem, base of operations, radix, root word, stand, tie-up, infrastructure, plinth, al-Qa'ida, bag

2. pedestalnoun

   a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)

   "they put him on a pedestal"

   Synonyms:
   base, stand, plinth, footstall

3. pedestal, plinth, footstallnoun

   an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)

   Synonyms:
   base, stand, plinth, footstall

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1. Pete Davidson:

   People love to tear you off your pedestal, just 'cause you’re really rich or you’re the best at tennis or you go to a charity event with 200 kids even though you’re dripping with COVID.

2. Stephen Jay Gould:

   The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

3. Stephen Jay Gould:

   Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

4. Shannon Slutman:

   He just did the right thing, he didnt expect anybody to put him up on a pedestal, [or] to put it on Facebook.

5. Levar Stoney:

   Jefferson Davis was a racist traitor who fled our city as Jefferson Davis troops carried out orders to burn it to the ground, jefferson Davis never deserved to be up on that pedestal. July 1, we will begin the process the state requires to remove these monuments to the Old Richmond of a Lost Cause.