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8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a support or foundation
noun a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
noun an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
originBorrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- elapsed 10
- pestled 10
- petaled 10
- pleased 10
- pleated 10
- sepaled 10
- spalted 10
- stapled 10
- adepts 9
- lapsed 9
- leaped 9
- padles 9