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pillar

noun as in column of building, or freestanding column

noun as in mainstay; source of strength

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While many Hawaiians still secretly worshipped the old gods, kapu was dead as a public pillar of the social structure.

In another generation, it will be useless, leading visitors straight into a pillar.

That morning, Israeli Air Force launched Operation Pillar of Defense in response to hundreds of incoming rockets from Gaza.

Yet over the course of this season, Sansa has become a pillar of strong womanhood.

I live just 45 minutes from my childhood home, so I am hardly the pillar of independence.

He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest.

I insisted on her taking my own rocker, while I fixed myself on the floor with a pillar for a back-rest.

To solve this one I stopped on the tavern steps, leaned against a pillar, and gazed through the dozing village.

Up the tube vapours may be seen ascending at great speed, the whole appearing like a gigantic pillar of swiftly revolving smoke.

For a pillar of the Church, Billy displayed rather amazing tastes and abilities.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pillar, such as: pedestal, colonnade, mast, obelisk, pier, and pilaster.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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