Pedestal

n. base, foundation; stand; mount, pad

Pedestal (from French piedestal, Italian piedistallo, foot of a stall) is a term generally applied to the support of a statue or a vase. Although in Syria, Asia Minor and Tunisia the Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or propylaea on square pedestals, in Rome itself they were employed only to give greater importance to isolated columns, such as those of Trajan and Antoninus, or as a podium to the columns employed decoratively in the Roman triumphal arches.
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Noun
1. a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp"
(synonym) base, stand
(hypernym) support
(hyponym) brass monkey
2. a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority); "they put him on a pedestal"
(hypernym) status, position
3. an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
(synonym) plinth, footstall
(hypernym) support
(hyponym) socle
(part-holonym) column, pillar
(part-meronym) dado

n. pedestal, base

n. base, basis, pedestal; rest; patten