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pillar English

Meaning pillar meaning

What does pillar mean?
Definitions in simple English

pillar

A pillar is a vertical structure that supports a building.

pillar

a fundamental principle or practice science eroded the pillars of superstition a prominent supporter he is a pillar of the community (= column) a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) (= column) (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure (= column, tower) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower the test tube held a column of white powder a tower of dust rose above the horizon a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite

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Conjugation pillar conjugation

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pillar · verb

Examples pillar examples

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Simple sentences

A large pillar obstructs the view of the lake.
He, who kicks the pillar that stands on the bridge that leads over the river that flows through the village, in which lives the man, who owns the collar that bestows magical powers that perform miracles, dies.
The service nobility was a pillar of the Prussian state.
He stood motionless, like a pillar of salt.
The pillar tilted to the right and fell.
Rotten wood is not suitable for a pillar; a vile person is not fit to be a manager.

Movie subtitles

Only then, if we in the Party with our most obedient dedication. become the highest embodiment of National Socialist thought and being. then the Party will materialize. into an eternal and indestructible pillar of the German people and Reich.
Over there, next to the pillar.
Why should my love life be kicked around from pillar to post?
She was turned into a pillar of salt.
People have been turned into a pillar of salt for that!
He wanted to yell at me and then that pillar fell on his head.
I'm going to the pillar box to post a letter, sir.
Well, she was told not to look back, but she disobeyed and. she was changed into a pillar of salt.
A pillar of fire!
She sees him as a selfless, devoted pillar of strength.
We were a pillar of Western culture.
A bulwark and a pillar the West may yet wish to retain.
And none more eloquently than this lonely pillar in a desolate pass some 200 miles north of modern Athens.
If you lunge to the side, then this pillar will get in the way.
Aspects of its stoutest pillar, the Vatican.
Dr. Pillar, use the stairs, please.
Exactly, Inspector, o Dr. Pillar as you say. did take my place that day, with the mask.
Another pillar of salt.
Successful businessman, pillar of the community.
But she disobeyed and she was changed into a pillar of salt.
All I do is chase you around from post to pillar, tryin' to get you to take your medicine.
Keep about 10 yards behind me. Like from here to the pillar.
Pillar of fire.
He was standing by this pillar an instant ago.
We were a bulwark against Bolshevism. We were a pillar of Western culture.
An iron pillar is on top of the hatch.
I don't know where she is now, and I haven't got an envelope or a stamp, and there isn't a pillar box or a postman.
You be careful. Better give 'im a flower for it. There's a bloke here behind that pillar takin' down every blessed word you're sayin'.
It's as if there's no pillar left for support.
She hit her head on the pillar.
I'm what you would call a pillar.

News and current affairs

The United States' partnership with the United Kingdom is one forged in war - and a pillar of the West for more than a half-century.
Russia and China are questioning the dollar as the pillar of the international system.
The first pillar of this system is the public and private economic monopolies that dominate the country.
The second pillar is formed by the unions that have controlled the Mexican labor movement since the 1930's.
The third pillar of the system is political monopoly.
This is where the second pillar of a liberal order comes into play: the rule of law.
A plurality of civic associations and activities - regulated but not controlled by the state, and free to express its views and even to demonstrate its (diverse) sentiments publicly - is the most powerful pillar of a liberal order.
PRAGUE - One pillar of the European Union's single market is harmonization.
But even during the Cold War, Americans often pointed out that the European pillar was lacking.
An active France can play a bridging role, leveraging its strong relationship with Germany (a friendship that is a pillar of the EU) and its proximity and cultural affinities to the Mediterranean.
That wariness is reinforced by a new political factor: a defense of Orthodoxy has become a pillar of the national idea on which Putin seeks to base the legitimacy of his regime.
While much has been said and written about America's call for China to become a global stakeholder, China will not simply sign on as a pillar of an American-defined world.
Now we need to work on the second pillar, resolution of the banking crisis.
The second pillar of poverty reduction is targeted investments for the poor, particularly for the rural poor.
This renewed commitment to a strong and united Europe is the second pillar of a twenty-first-century German foreign policy.
Presenting himself as the last pillar of respect for international law, Putin offered ethics lessons to the United States - and specifically to President Barack Obama.
First, a well-articulated urbanization strategy has emerged as a key pillar of consumer-led rebalancing.
The second insight from the 2013 China Development Forum is the new government's focus on strengthening the social safety net as a pillar of a modern consumer society.
The investment and construction requirements of large-scale urbanization are a key pillar of this strategy.
Removing this pillar of the system - or creating a high degree of risk around US Treasuries - would disrupt many private contracts and all kinds of transactions.
Indeed, as a pillar of export-oriented modernity, Park Chung-hee was once lionized as the archetype of a modernizing political leadership in military-authoritarian states.
Yet Hatoyama dithers, undermining the most important pillar of peace and security in the Pacific, the Japan-US alliance.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was not aware of the students' plan in 1979. But he later endorsed their actions, and made anti-Americanism a pillar of Iran's foreign policy.

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