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pillar

noun
/ˈpɪlə/UK/ˈpɪlɚ/US/ˈpɪllə(r)/

Etymology

From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).

  1. derived from pila
  2. derived from *pilāre✻
  3. derived from pilier
  4. inherited from piler

Definitions

  1. A large post, often used as supporting architecture.

  2. Something resembling such a structure.

    • a pillar of smoke

  3. An essential part of something that provides support.

    • He's a pillar of the community.
    • Star Trek is one of the pillars of modern entertainment.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his…

      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 mace

    2. The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.

    3. The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.

    4. A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.

    5. 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 hearth
      • We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides
      • In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix.

    6. A surname.

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Derived

A-pillar, B-pillar, C-pillar, D-pillar, bepillared, bundle pillar, depillar, 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, pillarize, pillarless, pillarlet, pillarlike, pillar of fire, pillar of flame, pillar of society, pillar of strength, pillar of the community, pillar telephone · +11 more

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA