Freebase (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: Pedestal. Pedestal is a term generally applied to the support of a statue or a vase.
Playing card. Playing cards is the name for the 54 cards used card games like poker, bridge, blackjack, and solitaire. There are 52 basic cards in a deck. These cards have a suit and a number (called the value or rank). There are 4 suits and 13 ranks in each suit. There are also two Jokers that do not have a suit or a rank.
Both wide (poker) and narrow (bridge) size playing card sets use a standard deck. So most common games are able to be played with either type of card. The names Poker and Bridge only refer to the size of the card and do not necessarily mean the card has been made to play only the games of Bridge or Poker.