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.
A standard deck of playing cards has 52 cards in it broken into 4 suits of 13 cards each. Each suit has 3 face cards (a King, a Queen, and a Jack) so 4 suits multiplied by 3 face cards equals 12 face cards in a standard deck of cards. Face card - Wikipedia.