Synonyms of the word pillar


PILLARADMIRER - BOOSTER - CHAMPION - COLUMN - CONSTRUCTION - FORM - FRIEND - MAINSTAY - PRINCIPLE - PROTAGONIST - RULE - SHAPE - STRUCTURE - SUPPORTER - TOWER - UPRIGHT - VERTICAL

pillar

  • n. (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
  • n. Something resembling such a structure.
  • n. An essential part of something that provides support.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of…
  • n. The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
  • v. To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.

admirer

  • n. One who admires.

booster

  • n. Something that boosts.
  • n. The first stage of a multistage rocket that provides the thrust for liftoff and the initial flight.
  • n. A motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits.
  • n. Someone who is a fan or supporter of something.
  • n. Someone who promotes a town or business.
  • n. A member of a booster club.
  • n. A booster dose.
  • n. (linguistics) A term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".
  • n. (video games) A power-up item.

champion

  • n. Someone who has been a winner in a contest.
  • n. Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.
  • n. Someone who fights for a cause or status.
  • n. Someone who fights on another's behalf.
  • adj. (attributive) Acting as a champion; that has defeated all one's competitors.
  • adj. (attributive) Excellent; beyond compare.
  • adj. (predicative, Ireland, Britain, dialect) Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.
  • v. (usually of a cause) To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for.

column

  • n. (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such…
  • n. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
  • n. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
  • n. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent…
  • n. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column…
  • n. (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single…
  • n. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
  • n. (botany) The gynostemium.
  • n. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

construction

  • n. The process of constructing.
  • n. Anything that has been constructed.
  • n. The trade of building structures.
  • n. A building, model or some other structure.
  • n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
  • n. The manner in which something is built.
  • n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
  • n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
  • n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
  • n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

form

  • n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
  • n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
  • n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  • n. Level of performance.
  • n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
  • n. The den or home of a hare.
  • n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
  • n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
  • n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
  • n. (geometry) A quantic.
  • n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
  • v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
  • v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
  • v. (intransitive) To take shape.
  • v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
  • v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  • v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
  • v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  • v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
  • v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

friend

  • n. A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels…
  • n. A boyfriend or girlfriend.
  • n. An associate who provides assistance.
  • n. A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
  • n. A person who backs or supports something.
  • n. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
  • n. (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected…
  • n. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
  • n. (obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
  • v. (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate…

mainstay

  • n. A chief support.
  • n. Someone or something that can be depended on to make a regular contribution.
  • n. (nautical) A stabilising rope from the top of the mainmast to the bottom of the foremast.

principle

  • n. A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
  • n. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
  • n. (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
  • n. (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
  • n. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
  • n. (obsolete) A beginning.
  • n. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance;…
  • n. An original faculty or endowment.
  • v. (transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any…

protagonist

  • n. The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
  • n. A leading person in a contest; a principal performer.
  • n. An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.

rule

  • n. A regulation, law, guideline.
  • n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
  • n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
  • n. A regulating principle.
  • n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
  • n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
  • n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
  • n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
  • n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
  • n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
  • v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
  • v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
  • v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
  • v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
  • v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…

shape

  • n. The status or condition of something.
  • n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  • n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
  • n. Form; formation.
  • n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
  • n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
  • n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
  • n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
  • v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
  • v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
  • v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
  • v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
  • v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
  • v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

structure

  • n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
  • n. The underlying shape of a solid.
  • n. The overall form or organization of something.
  • n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
  • n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
  • n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
  • n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
  • n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
  • v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

supporter

  • n. A person who gives support to someone or something.
  • n. Something that supports another thing.

tower

  • n. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite,…
  • n. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires,…
  • n. A water tower.
  • n. A control tower.
  • n. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
  • n. (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
  • n. (informal) An interlocking tower.
  • n. (figuratively) A strong refuge; a defence.
  • n. (historical) A tall fashionable headdress.
  • n. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
  • n. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, deemed an ill omen.
  • v. (intransitive) To be very tall.
  • v. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
  • n. One who tows.

upright

  • adj. Vertical; erect.
  • adj. Greater in height than breadth.
  • adj. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
  • adj. (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
  • adv. in or into an upright position.
  • n. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
  • n. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic…
  • n. (informal) An upright piano.
  • n. Short for upright vacuum cleaner.
  • v. (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).

vertical

  • adj. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular…
  • adj. In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular,…
  • adj. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
  • adj. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
  • n. A vertex or zenith.
  • n. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
  • n. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
  • n. A vertical component of a structure.
  • n. (marketing) A vertical market.

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