The vase fell off the plinth.
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Plinth
//plɪnθ//
Synonyms for "plinth" (40 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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Translations
49 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- пиедестал noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- цокъл noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
Catalan
3 entries- basament noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- sòcol noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- sòcol noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 礎 /础 noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Czech
2 entries- podstavec noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- sokl noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Danish
1 entries- sokkel noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Dutch
1 entries- sokkel noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Egyptian
1 entries- p:N37 noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Esperanto
1 entries- soklo noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Finnish
4 entries- jalusta noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- jalusta noun (base for a cabinet)
- kivijalka noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
- sokkeli noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
French
1 entries- plinthe noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
German
2 entries- Plinthe noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- Sockel noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Icelandic
1 entries- sökull noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Italian
2 entries- plinto noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- zoccolo noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
Japanese
3 entries- 台座 noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- 柱礎 noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- 根石 noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Latin
1 entries- plinthus noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Malay
1 entries- alas tiang noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sokkel noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Occitan
3 entries- plint noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- plint noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
- sòcle noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
Portuguese
4 entries- alaque noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- plinto noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- soclo noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- soco noun (base for a cabinet)
Russian
2 entries- постаме́нт noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- цо́коль noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Spanish
2 entries- fundato noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
- zócalo noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Swedish
3 entries- piedestal noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- plint noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- sockel noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
Ukrainian
4 entries- п'єдестал noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- постаме́нт noun (base for column, pedestal or statue)
- підму́рок noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
- підні́жок noun (bottom course of stones supporting a wall)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The statue stands on a ten-metre-high plinth.
Source: tatoeba (10894611)
The queen placed the vase on the plinth so the cupbearer could fill it with flowers.
Source: wiktionary
There appears to be no definite information about the origin of the two large boulders, mounted on plinths, on the platforms of St. Anne's Park Station, Bristol.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.