Noun: pillar
| Singular | pillar |
| Plural | pillars |
Sample Sentences
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a pillar of smoke
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He's a pillar of the community.
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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 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:]
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Star Trek is one of the pillars of modern entertainment. [2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by CJ (Christian Mallen):]
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two laye-men secular
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eache of theym holdynge a pillar
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In their hondes, steade of a mace [a. 1529, John Skelton, a poem:]
Nouns inflected like pillar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
piler', Latin Nouns '
pila'.
Verbs referencing "pillar"
Swedish Nouns
pelare.