Synonyms:
base, pedestal, stand
Meaning: a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp"
Usage examples
His statue rested on a square stone pedestal, facing the east, and had in one hand a serpent of gold.
The scene was the night when he had asked her to come up on his pedestal with him and share his greatness.
She had always insisted upon placing him upon a pedestal, and he had accepted her homage with royal grandeur.
Whereupon Mona got upon her pedestal and smiled her unpleasant smile, against which even Park had no argument ready.
Elevated on a pedestal of porphyry, surrounded by a rail of bronze arrows of the lightest workmanship, was that statue of Diana which they had so much admired at Pisa.
In the middle of the clearing, on a pedestal of roughly piled rocks, there stood a cross of coral, extending long arms you would have thought were made of petrified blood.
How does the true story of Hypatia compare with the fable of "a nude woman placed on a pedestal in the city of Paris?" The Reverend must answer, or never tell an untruth again.
But, no; I saw him, with arms outstretched and legs straddling wide apart, erect before a granite rock that stood in the centre of the crater, just like a pedestal made ready to receive a statue of Pluto.
Behind the altar--extending almost to the old shrine of the Confessor--will stand the pedestal with the emblematic figure upon it; and--so far as I understand from the absence of directions--each such figure will remain in place until the eve of the next quarterly feast."
This picture was not hung, as pictures usually are, against the wall; there was no inch of wall vacant for such a purpose: it had a stand or desk erected for its own accommodation; and there on her pedestal, framed and glazed, stood the devotional lady looking intently at a lily as no lady ever looked before.