pillar

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pillar[1,noun] pillar[2,transitive verb] Pillars of Hercules

Main Entry: ¹pil·lar
Pronunciation: 'pi-l&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English piler, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin pilare, from Latin pila
1 a : a firm upright support for a superstructure : POST b : a usually ornamental column or shaft; especially : one standing alone for a monument
2 a : a supporting, integral, or upstanding member or part <a pillar of society> b : a fundamental precept <the five pillars of Islam>
3 : a solid mass of coal, rock, or ore left standing to support a mine roof
4 : a body part that resembles a column
- pil·lar·less adjective
- from pillar to post : from one place or one predicament to another