Noun:

भवन का स्तंभपाद, पाद-पीठ, बैठक, पीठ, कुरसी,

pedestals's Usage Examples:

This was found to be lined with pedestals of honorific statues and to have on the west side a remarkable building, stated in an inscription to have been a library.

The great sculptured drums and pedestals, now in the British Museum, belong to the lower part of certain of its columns: but nothing of its frieze or pediments (if it had any) has been recovered.

In front of the porticoes are rows of pedestals, which once bore statues and other dedications.

In the centre the colossal statue of Luther rises, on a pedestal at the base of which are sitting figures of Peter Waldo, Wycliffe, Hus and Savonarola, the heralds of the Reformation; at the corners of the platform, on lower pedestals, are statues of Luther's contemporaries, Melanchthon, Reuchlin, Philip of Hesse, and Frederick the Wise of Saxony, between which are allegorical figures of Magdeburg (mourning), Spires (protesting) and Augsburg (confessing).

On some of the platforms there are upwards of a dozen images, now thrown from their pedestals and lying in all directions.

On the land side of the platforms there is a broad terrace with large stone pedestals upon which once stood colossal stone images carved somewhat into the shape of the human trunk.

Some of the inscribed pedestals of the latter have been found.

But Sixtus had no appreciation of antiquity: the columns of Trajan and Antoninus were made to serve as pedestals for the statues of SS Peter and Paul; the Minerva of the Capitol was converted into "Christian Rome"; the Septizonium of Severus was demolished for its building materials.

Ubaldo, when three colossal wooden pedestals, each over 30 ft.

Sixteen pedestals were here discovered in situ.

Synonyms:

base, brass monkey, support, trivet, staddle, stand,

Antonyms:

negate, disapproval, boycott, forbid, disallow,