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pillar
Overview of noun pillar
The noun pillar has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) pillar -- (a fundamental principle or practice; "science eroded the pillars of superstition")
2. column, tower, pillar -- (anything tall and relatively thin 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")
3. pillar, mainstay -- (a prominent supporter; "he is a pillar of the community")
4. column, pillar -- (a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument))
5. column, pillar -- ((architeture) a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pillar
5 senses of pillar
Sense 1
pillar
=> principle, rule
=> generalization, generalisation, generality
=> idea, thought
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
column, tower, pillar
=> shape, form
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
pillar, mainstay
=> supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
=> advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
column, pillar
=> structure, construction
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 5
column, pillar
=> upright, vertical
=> structural member
=> support
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun pillar
4 of 5 senses of pillar
Sense 1
pillar
=> pillar of Islam
Sense 2
column, tower, pillar
=> columella
=> hoodoo
Sense 4
column, pillar
=> obelisk
=> totem pole
Sense 5
column, pillar
=> atlas, telamon
=> caryatid
=> newel
=> pilaster
=> pile, spile, piling, stilt
=> support column
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pillar
5 senses of pillar
Sense 1
pillar
=> principle, rule
Sense 2
column, tower, pillar
=> shape, form
Sense 3
pillar, mainstay
=> supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
Sense 4
column, pillar
=> structure, construction
Sense 5
column, pillar
=> upright, vertical
Antonyms of noun pillar
Member Holonyms of noun pillar
Substance Holonyms of noun pillar
Part Holonyms of noun pillar
1 of 5 senses of pillar
Sense 5
column, pillar
PART OF: temple
Member Meronyms of noun pillar
Substance Meronyms of noun pillar
Part Meronyms of noun pillar
1 of 5 senses of pillar
Sense 5
column, pillar
HAS PART: capital, chapiter, cap
HAS PART: pedestal, plinth, footstall
HAS PART: shaft, scape
HAS PART: entasis
Meronyms of noun pillar
1 of 5 senses of pillar
Sense 5
column, pillar
HAS PART: capital, chapiter, cap
HAS PART: pedestal, plinth, footstall
HAS PART: shaft, scape
HAS PART: entasis
Holonyms of noun pillar
1 of 5 senses of pillar
Sense 5
column, pillar
PART OF: temple
Attributes of noun pillar
Derived Forms of noun pillar
Domain of noun pillar
1 of 5 senses of pillar
Sense 5
column, pillar
TOPIC>(noun) architecture#2
Domain Terms of noun pillar
Familiarity of noun pillar
pillar used as a noun is common (polysemy count =5)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun pillar
5 senses of pillar
Sense 1
pillar
> principle, rule
=> pillar
=> yang
=> yin
=> feng shui
Sense 2
column, tower, pillar
> shape, form
=> solid
=> plane, sheet
=> natural shape
=> flare, flair
=> figure
=> line
=> angular shape, angularity
=> round shape
=> distorted shape, distortion
=> amorphous shape
=> connection, connexion, link
=> circle
=> square
=> triangle
=> column, tower, pillar
Sense 3
pillar, mainstay
> supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
=> anglophile, anglophil
=> believer, truster
=> Boswell
=> cheerleader
=> Confederate
=> enthusiast, partisan, partizan
=> Francophile, Francophil
=> free trader
=> functionalist
=> Jacobite
=> loyalist, stalwart
=> New Dealer
=> philhellene, philhellenist, Graecophile
=> pillar, mainstay
=> Roundhead
=> seconder
=> Shavian
=> subscriber, endorser, indorser, ratifier
=> sympathizer, sympathiser, well-wisher
=> toaster, wassailer
=> upholder, maintainer, sustainer
=> voucher, verifier
=> Whig
Sense 4
column, pillar
> structure, construction
=> airdock, hangar, repair shed
=> altar
=> arcade, colonnade
=> arch
=> area
=> balcony
=> balcony
=> bascule
=> boarding
=> body
=> bridge, span
=> building, edifice
=> building complex, complex
=> catchment
=> coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix
=> colonnade
=> column, pillar
=> corner, quoin
=> cross
=> deathtrap
=> defensive structure, defense, defence
=> door
=> entablature
=> erection
=> establishment
=> floor, level, storey, story
=> fountain
=> house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle
=> housing, lodging, living accommodations
=> hull
=> jungle gym
=> lamination
=> landing, landing place
=> lookout, observation tower, lookout station, observatory
=> masonry
=> memorial, monument
=> mound, hill
=> obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta
=> partition, divider
=> platform, weapons platform
=> porch
=> post and lintel
=> prefab
=> projection
=> public works
=> set-back, setoff, offset
=> shelter
=> shoebox
=> signboard, sign
=> stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium
=> superstructure
=> supporting structure
=> tower
=> transept
=> trestlework
=> vaulting
=> ways, shipway, slipway
=> wellhead
=> wind tunnel
=> honeycomb
=> balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance
Sense 5
column, pillar
> upright, vertical
=> column, pillar
=> jamb
=> post
=> scantling, stud
=> shaft, scape
=> stile
Meronyms of noun pillar
5 senses of pillar
Sense 3
pillar, mainstay
=> supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
=> advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 4
column, pillar
=> structure, construction
HAS PART: foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
HAS PART: plate
HAS PART: structural member
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Sense 5
column, pillar
HAS PART: capital, chapiter, cap
HAS PART: pedestal, plinth, footstall
HAS PART: dado
HAS PART: shaft, scape
HAS PART: entasis
=> upright, vertical
=> structural member
=> support
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun pillar
1 of 5 senses of pillar
Sense 5
column, pillar
PART OF: temple
Grep of noun pillar
caterpillar
forest tent caterpillar
lappet caterpillar
pillar
pillar box
pillar of islam
pillar of strength
pillars of hercules
tent caterpillar
tussock caterpillar
woolly bear caterpillar
Grep of adj pillar
pillar-shaped
pillared
Grep of adv pillar
from pillar to post
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