An excessive attention to detail or rules. / An instance of such behaviour. / An overly ambitious display of learning.

A man who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy; a practitioner of pederasty.

(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp. / (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.

To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

(botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised); a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster. / (mycology) A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.

An itinerant seller of small goods. / A drug dealer. / (figuratively) A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.

The profession of teaching. / The activities of educating, teaching or instructing. / The strategies or methods of instruction; an educational philosophy.

(American spelling) A physician that specializes in pediatrics; the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities. / To sell illegal narcotics. / (derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.

A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding. / A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage. / (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.