pillar
Syllables: pil·larUK/ˈpɪlə//ˈpɪlɚ/
pillar noun: a large post, often used as supporting architecture.
Noun
pillar (plural pillars)
- A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- Something resembling such a structure.
- a pillar of smoke
- An essential part of something that provides support.
- He's a pillar of the community.
- In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that both Beijing and Taipei viewed Taiwan as part of China but unequivocally expressed our support for a peaceful settlement of the unification issue. While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider...1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181
- A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
- two laye-men secular
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In their hondes, steade of a macea. 1529, John Skelton, a poem
- two laye-men secular
- The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
- The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
- A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.
Verb
pillar (third-person singular simple present pillars, present participle pillaring, simple past and past participle pillared)
- To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
- Insufficient penetration, or faulty distribution of the blast, may give rise to "pillaring" — that is, the formation of a pillar or column of cold material extending up through the middle of the hearth1910, James Morgan, Blast furnace practice
- We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides1996, National Academy of Engineering, First annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, page 25
Proper noun capitalized: Pillar
Pillar (plural Pillars)
- A surname.
pillar meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
pillar in Hindi
- large post, often used as supporting architecture
- स्तंभ stambh, खंभा khambhā
- essential part of something
- आधार ādhār
pillar in Tamil
- தூண், ஊண்டுகொல்
pillar in Marathi
- pillar, post, column
- खांब khāmba
pillar in Urdu
- pillar, support, column, prop, beam
- ستون sutūn
- a pillar or mound used for marking a boundary
- کھاگ khāg
- pillar; stanchion
- قائد qāid
More languagesFewer languages
- pillar in Bengali
- থাম tham, খাম্বা khamba
- pillar in Telugu
- స్తంభము stambhamu, స్థూణ sthūṇa, కంబము kambamu
- pillar in Malayalam
- തൂണ് tūṇŭ, സ്തംഭം stambhaṁ
- pillar in Kannada
- ಕಂಬ, ಸ್ತಂಭ, ಸ್ತಂಭಾಕಾರ, ಕಂಬದ ಆಕೃತಿ
- pillar in Punjabi
- پاوا pāvā
- pillar in Gujarati
- થાંભલો thā̃bhlo, કુંભી kumbhī
- pillar in Odia
- କାଣ୍ଡ kāṇḍa
- pillar in Sanskrit
- स्तम्भ stambha, स्थूणा sthūṇā
- pillar in Assamese
- খুঁটা khũta, থাম tham
- pillar in Pashto
- برجۍ burjə́y, مټه máṭa
- pillar in Tagalog
- haligi
- pillar in Arabic
- عمود
- pillar in Malay
- tiang, turus
- pillar in Indonesian
- pilar, tiang
- pillar in Persian
- ستون sotun, رکن rokn
- pillar in Thai
- เสา sǎo, หลัก làk
- pillar in Vietnamese
- cột
Examples of pillar in a sentence
- While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider certain steps that will raise Taiwan's international standing.1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181:
- Star Trek is one of the pillars of modern entertainment.2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by CJ (Christian Mallen):
- In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix.1998, Zhong Lin Wang with Zhen Chuan Kang, Functional and smart materials, page 226:
- It was then that scientists started to create porosity in the interlayer space of layered clays. developing the first pillared clays with pores in the larger microporous region.2004, Scott M. Auerbach with Kathleen A. Carrado and Prabir K. Dutta, Handbook of layered materials, page 261:
Synonyms of pillar
Forms of pillar
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pillars |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pillars |
| present participle | pillaring |
| past participle | pillared |
| past | pillared |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pillars |
Origin of pillar
From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).
Words formed from pillar
- Cape Pillar
- A-pillar
- bepillared
- B-pillar
- bundle pillar
- C-pillar
- depillar
- D-pillar
- earth pillar
- pillar to post
- post to pillar
- hydropillar
- ice pillar
- interpillar
- intrapillar
- light pillar
- micropillar
- nanopillar
- pilaster
- pillar and stall
- pillar-biter
- pillar block
- pillar box
- pillar-box red
- pillar candle
- pillar dollar
- pillar drill
- pillaret
- pillar harp
- pillarisation
- pillarist
- pillarization
- pillarize
- pillarless
- pillarlet
- pillarlike
- pillar of fire
- pillar of flame
- pillar of society
- pillar of strength
- pillar of the community
- pillar telephone
- Pillar Valley
- pillarwise
- pillary
- room and pillar
- sand pillar
- solar pillar
- sun pillar
- tongue pillar
- triangulation pillar
- trig pillar
- water pillar
Phrases with pillar
Words that rhyme with pillar
Questions about pillar
- What does pillar mean?
- Pillar means a large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- What is pillar in Hindi?
- Pillar in Hindi is स्तंभ (stambh), खंभा (khambhā), आधार (ādhār). See Pillar meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use pillar in a sentence?
- While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider certain steps that will raise Taiwan's international standing.
- What part of speech is pillar?
- Pillar can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pillar?
- Pillar is pronounced /ˈpɪlə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pillar?
- The plural of pillar is pillars.
Words near pillar in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pillar (page history and authors); Pillar (page history and authors); pillar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खांब (Marathi) (page history and authors); ستون (Urdu) (page history and authors); খাম্বা (Bengali) (page history and authors); pillar (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); پاوا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); કુંભી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); କାଣ୍ଡ (Odia) (page history and authors); برجۍ (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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