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Plural of pedestal

regular plural

The plural of pedestal is pedestals.

Forms of pedestal

Singularpedestal /ˈpɛdɪstəl/
Pluralpedestals
Countablecountable

Pedestals in a sentence

  • The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000.2018 February 28, Rene Marsh, Ross Levitt, “See HUD’s $31,000 mahogany dining set”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022
  • We’ve all placed people on pedestals, and then, almost inevitably, they let us down.2012 August 31, Todd Leopold, “When the hero falls off the pedestal”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022
  • Men shove statues off pedestals, and use hammers and drills to destroy what’s left.2015 February 26, Ben Wedeman, Dana Ford, “Video shows ISIS militants destroying antiquities in Iraq”, in CNN, archived from the original…. From the entry hammer
  • The girls who had tormented me in high school had fallen, hard, from their pedestals.2014, Mary Castillo, Caridad Pineiro Scordato, Berta Platas, Friday Night Chicas: Sexy Stories from La Noche, page 216. From the entry goddess
  • We reject pedestals, queenhood, and walking ten paces behind.1977, The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement" (better known as the Combahee River Collective Statement), in Zillah R.…. From the entry queenhood

Meaning of pedestal

  1. noun The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
  2. noun A place of reverence or honor.
  3. noun A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

Full definition of pedestal

Questions about the plural of pedestal

What is the plural of pedestal?
The plural of pedestal is pedestals.
Is pedestal countable?
Pedestal is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedestal (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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