Usually means: Supporting structure, often vertical, architectural.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pillar: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pillar, pillar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pillar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pillar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pillar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pillar, pillar: Wordnik
  7. pillar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pillar: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Pillar, pillar: Wiktionary
  10. pillar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pillar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pillar: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pillar, pillar: Dictionary.com
  14. pillar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pillar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pillar (Lake District), Pillar (automobile), Pillar (band), Pillar (car), Pillar (disambiguation), Pillar (landform), Pillar (video game), Pillar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pillar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pillar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pillar: Rhymezone
  20. pillar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pillar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pillar: Free Dictionary
  23. pillar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pillar: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. pillar: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pillar: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. Pillar: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pillar: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pillar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pillar: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. pillar: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pillar: Easton Bible
  2. Pillar: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pillar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pillar: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  2. Pillar: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Pillar: Dictionary of Candlemaking Terms
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  5. pillar: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

(Note: See pillared as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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