Definitions for pillar

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pillar pil·lar

Spelling: [pil-er]

IPA: /ˈpɪl ər/

Pillar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in pillar (aillpr).

Definitions for pillar

noun

1. an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument:
2. a natural formation resembling such a construction:
3. any upright, supporting part; post:
4. a person who is a chief supporter of a society, state, institution, etc.:
5. Horology. any of several short parts for spacing and keeping in the proper relative positions two plates holding the bearings of a watch or clock movement.
6. Mining. an isolated mass of rock or ore in a mine, usually serving as a roof support in early operations and later removed, wholly or in part.
7. Nautical. mast1 (def 2).

Idioms

1. from pillar to post, aimlessly from place to place. uneasily from one bad situation or predicament to another.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide or support with pillars.

Origin of pillar

1175-1225; Middle English pillare Medieval Latin pīlāre (see pile¹, -ar²); replacing earlier piler Old French Medieval La

Examples for pillar

Jackson is, contrary to this off-field image people have cultivated for him, a pillar of the community.

In another generation, it will be useless, leading visitors straight into a pillar.

They threatened between them to fix her there in a pillar of snow.

Yet over the course of this season, Sansa has become a pillar of strong womanhood.

But as pillar noted, these groups “still want coverage by the mainstream media in order to realize their publicity goals.”

Behind it, at the corner of a pillar, was an ever-burning altar-lamp.

Crowded against the pillar I could not escape and so tried to appear unconcerned.

When LOT swapped his wife away for a pillar of salt, the trade was free.

I live just 45 minutes from my childhood home, so I am hardly the pillar of independence.

In an hour we can raise a pillar of ice ten feet high, and that is quite enough.