pedestal
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a support or foundation
the base of the lamp
Types & categories
- support hypernym
- brass monkey hyponym
- staddle hyponym
- trivet hyponym
- trivet hyponym
Sense 2 noun
a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
they put him on a pedestal
Types & categories
- status hypernym
Sense 3 noun
an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | support |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | brass monkey |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | staddle |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trivet |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trivet |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | status |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | pillar |
| 3 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | dado |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | support |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | socle |