Usually means: Supportive structures, fundamental principles, essential.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word pillars:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pillars: Merriam-Webster
  2. pillars: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pillars: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pillar's, Pillars, pillars: Wordnik
  5. pillars: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Pillars, pillars: Wiktionary
  7. pillars: Dictionary.com
  8. pillars: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pillars: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. pillars: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pillars: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pillars: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pillars: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pillars: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pillars: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pillars: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See pillar as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pillar)

noun:  (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
noun:  Something resembling such a structure.
noun:  (figuratively) An essential part of something that provides support.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
noun:  The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
noun:  (bodybuilding) The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
noun:  (geology) A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.
verb:  (transitive) To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
noun:  A surname.
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