pedestal
pe duh stuhl
- n a support or foundation
- n a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
they put him on a pedestal - n an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
- Picture a young Mozart when in 1762 he was lifted, at the tender age of six, onto a pedestal to perform before Austria's Archduchess Maria Theresa.
- Along with Australia's Peter Norman, the second-place finisher, they mounted the victory pedestal to receive their medals.
- Though the pedestal and lower observation deck re-opened in 2004, the statue itself has been off-limits since the Twin Towers fell barely two miles away.