pillars

Noun

pillar (plural pillars)

1. A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
2. Something resembling such a structure.
   • a pillar of smoke
3. (figuratively) An essential part of something that provides support.
   • He's a pillar of the community.
4. A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
   • two laye-men secular
     eache of theym holdynge a pillar
     In their hondes, steade of a macea. 1529, John Skelton, a poem
5. The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
6. The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.

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