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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ped•i•ment (ped′ə mənt),USA pronunciation n. - Architecture(in classical architecture) a low gable, typically triangular with a horizontal cornice and raking cornices, surmounting a colonnade, an end wall, or a major division of a façade.
- Architectureany imitation of this, often fancifully treated, used to crown an opening, a monument, etc., or to form part of a decorative scheme.
- Geologya gently sloping rock surface at the foot of a steep slope, as of a mountain, usually thinly covered with alluvium.
- (def. 3) by construal as pedi- + -ment 1655–65; earlier pedament, pedement, alteration, by association with Latin pēs (stem ped-) foot, of earlier peremint, perh. an unlearned alteration of pyramid
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: pediment /ˈpɛdɪmənt/ n - a low-pitched gable, esp one that is triangular, as used in classical architecture
Etymology: 16th Century: from obsolete periment, perhaps workman's corruption of pyramidˌpediˈmental adj |