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" Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post."
Rebecca Ferguson

Meaning of "pillar" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PILLAR

From Old French pilier, from Latin pīla.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PILLAR

ˈpɪlə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PILLAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pillar is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pillar in English.

WHAT DOES PILLAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pillar

Pillar or Pillars may refer to: ▪ Column or pillar, a structural element in architecture ▪ Pillar, a Christian rock band ▪ Pillar, the windshield support structure on a car ▪ Pillar, a mountain in the English Lake District ▪ The Pillar, an LGBT publication ▪ City Pillars, South African football club ▪ Pillar Data Systems, a company making enterprise storage systems ▪ "Pillars", signature song of rock band Sunny Day Real Estate ▪ The Pillar, a fictional title in Magic Knight Rayearth...

Definition of pillar in the English dictionary

The first definition of pillar in the dictionary is an upright structure of stone, brick, metal, etc, that supports a superstructure or is used for ornamentation. Other definition of pillar is something resembling this in shape or function. Pillar is also a tall, slender, usually sheer rock column, forming a separate top.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PILLAR

PRESENT

Present
I pillar
you pillar
he/she/it pillars
we pillar
you pillar
they pillar
Present continuous
I am pillaring
you are pillaring
he/she/it is pillaring
we are pillaring
you are pillaring
they are pillaring
Present perfect
I have pillared
you have pillared
he/she/it has pillared
we have pillared
you have pillared
they have pillared
Present perfect continuous
I have been pillaring
you have been pillaring
he/she/it has been pillaring
we have been pillaring
you have been pillaring
they have been pillaring
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I pillared
you pillared
he/she/it pillared
we pillared
you pillared
they pillared
Past continuous
I was pillaring
you were pillaring
he/she/it was pillaring
we were pillaring
you were pillaring
they were pillaring
Past perfect
I had pillared
you had pillared
he/she/it had pillared
we had pillared
you had pillared
they had pillared
Past perfect continuous
I had been pillaring
you had been pillaring
he/she/it had been pillaring
we had been pillaring
you had been pillaring
they had been pillaring
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will pillar
you will pillar
he/she/it will pillar
we will pillar
you will pillar
they will pillar
Future continuous
I will be pillaring
you will be pillaring
he/she/it will be pillaring
we will be pillaring
you will be pillaring
they will be pillaring
Future perfect
I will have pillared
you will have pillared
he/she/it will have pillared
we will have pillared
you will have pillared
they will have pillared
Future perfect continuous
I will have been pillaring
you will have been pillaring
he/she/it will have been pillaring
we will have been pillaring
you will have been pillaring
they will have been pillaring
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would pillar
you would pillar
he/she/it would pillar
we would pillar
you would pillar
they would pillar
Conditional continuous
I would be pillaring
you would be pillaring
he/she/it would be pillaring
we would be pillaring
you would be pillaring
they would be pillaring
Conditional perfect
I would have pillar
you would have pillar
he/she/it would have pillar
we would have pillar
you would have pillar
they would have pillar
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been pillaring
you would have been pillaring
he/she/it would have been pillaring
we would have been pillaring
you would have been pillaring
they would have been pillaring
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you pillar
we let´s pillar
you pillar
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to pillar
Past participle
pillared
Present Participle
pillaring
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PILLAR

ala · Anguilla · caterpillar · killer · Manila · miller · papilla · papillar · pila · pupilar · pupillar · retailer · similar · spiller · Taylor · thriller · trailer · Tyler · Venezuela · villa

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PILLAR

pill · pill beetle · pill bottle · pill bug · pill popper · pillage · pillager · pillaging · pillar box · pillar-box · pillared · pillarist · pillarless · Pillars of Hercules · pillbox · pilled · pillhead · pillicock · pillie · pillion

WORDS THAT END LIKE PILLAR

axillar · bacillar · collar · dollar · earth pillar · fibrillar · mamillar · maxillar · microfibrillar · microvillar · myofibrillar · neurofibrillar · pistillar · pulvillar · spirillar · tendrillar · tent caterpillar · tonsillar · vexillar · villar

Synonyms and antonyms of pillar in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PILLAR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pillar» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «pillar» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PILLAR

Find out the translation of pillar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pillar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pillar» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

柱子
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

pilar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

pillar
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

स्तंभ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عَمْود
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

колонна
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

pilar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

স্তম্ভ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

pilier
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tiang
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Säule
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

기둥
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

cagak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cột
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தூண்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

स्तंभ
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

sütun
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

pilastro
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

filar
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

колона
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

pilon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στύλος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pilaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pelare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

søyle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pillar

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PILLAR»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of pillar
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «pillar».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pillar

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «PILLAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pillar.
1
Steve Aoki
For me, I guess the general reason for using social media is that the connection I have with people who are interested in my music is extremely important to me. That connection is like the pillar in everything I do. I want to embrace that connection and make it stronger.
2
Yochai Benkler
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
3
Charles M. Blow
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.
4
William Cavendish
But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of.
5
William Cavendish
These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.
6
Rebecca Ferguson
Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.
7
Simon Hoggart
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.
8
Wang Jianlin
China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.
9
Grace Kelly
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
10
Jamie Kennedy
I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PILLAR»

Discover the use of pillar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pillar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability: Culture's Essential ...
Cultural vitality is an essential to a healthy and sustainable society as social equity, envrinmental responsibilty and economic viability.
Jon Hawkes, 2001
2
Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy
In this critical study, a career CIA officer provides a guide to constructing and executing counter-terrorist policy, urging that it be formulated as an integral part of broader US foreign policy.
Paul R. Pillar, 2001
3
Story of the Delhi Iron Pillar
It also discusses the amazing process by which the pillar was manufactured using the technical know-how available at the time. the book is primarily aimed at general readers and tourists, with a view to igniting their interest in this ...
R. Balasubramaniam, 2005
4
The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox ...
This volume is the first English translation of his rich and fascinating defense of Russian Orthodox theology.Originally published in 1914, the book is a series of twelve letters to a "brother" or "friend," who may be understood ...
Pavel Aleksandrovich Florenskiĭ, 1997
5
Methuselah's Pillar
Methuselah's Pillar moves at quantum speed as the action thriller combines worlds of germ warfare, espionage, myth and ancient history.
W. G. Griffiths, 2010
6
A Pillar of Impotence
Mark started writing in 1997. He won the Rethink Pringles award for art and poetry in 2002 with his poem The Archbishop's Palace. Work on A Pillar of Impotence began in 2002 and was completed in 2005.
Mark Edgar, 2011
7
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith ...
Taylor Branch, 2007
8
Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?
The overriding lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium, the question arises: Will ours be any different?
‎1999
9
Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back
Pillar of Salt cuts a wide swath through modern Western history, extending the concept of transformative remembering into stories about the female self that have emerged historically in discourses on sexual abuse, hypnosis, and hysteria.
Janice Haaken, 2000
10
The Pillar of Salt
Alexandre Benillouche, a boy of Italian Jewish and Berber descent, struggles for identity and survival in the ghettos of war-torn Tunisia
Albert Memmi, 1955

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PILLAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pillar is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Boat Crashes Into Barrier Near Baltimore's Key Bridge; Two Dead …
The Coast Guard said the Sea Ray Sundancer hit a concrete pillar around a section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Two other people were ... «NBCNews.com, Jul 15»
2
My wife has been a pillar of strength: Ankeet Chavan
The iconic Shivaji Park, considered the nursery of Mumbai cricket, is just a stone's throw away from his house, but the life ban meant that ... «The Asian Age, Jul 15»
3
Remembering David Colestock: 'a solid pillar of the community'
David B. Colestock was retired as a draftsman designer at Gannett Fleming and as a tip staff at Dauphin County Courthouse. Colestock, 77, of ... «PennLive.com, Jul 15»
4
Toronto Blue Jays continue striking gold with Kevin Pillar
Keving Pillar has taken a fascinating journey through the Toronto Blue Jays system. The 32nd round pick from 2011 started off as ... «Jay's Journal, Jul 15»
5
209 years since Captain Clark signed pillar; Clark Days continues …
A national monument less than an hour east of Billings, about a thousand people join in a day of revisiting history at Pompeys Pillar. Clark Days ... «KTVQ Billings News, Jul 15»
6
Bhuvaneshwari Kumari - Sreesanth's pillar of strength
Kochi: When S Sreesanth's life and career broke into smithereens in 2013, there was one person who stood by him. Bhuvaneshwari Kumari, a ... «onmanorama, Jul 15»
7
Apparent hit-and-run victim a 'pillar of the community'
74-year-old Satnam Singh was a father of three and described as a 'pillar of the community'. Photo: Derbyshire Police. Satnam Singh (74), a ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
8
Third Pillar Pension Tax Benefits Extended To Certain Insurance …
The framework for third pillar pensions was announced during the last Budget in November however since then no products have been ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
9
Monsanto: A Biotech Pillar Of Strength In An Increasingly Turbulent …
Disclosure: I/we have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. (More...)I wrote this ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»
10
Kadamba-era pillar inscription in Gudnapur gets a roof
A pillar inscription in Gudnapur belonging to the Kadamba era got a roof recently, according to a report on Wednesday. The inscription belongs ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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