pillar

About 3.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
2. noun Something resembling such a structure.

   a pillar of smoke

3. noun An essential part of something that provides support.

   He's a pillar of the community.

4. noun A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
5. noun The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
6. noun The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
7. noun A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.
8. verb To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.

Similar words

column tower mainstay hypostyle keystone buttress abutment volet cornerstone basement

Often followed by

of and in to is was at on or

Word family

pillared pillaring pillarless pillars