Pillar

Pillar or Pillars may refer to:

  • An architectural element, similar to a column
  • One among a group of principles
  • Pillar (band), a Christian rock band
  • Pillar (car), the windshield support structure on a car
  • Pillar (Lake District), a mountain in the English Lake District
  • Paul R. Pillar, retired CIA National Intelligence Officer
  • City Pillars, South African football (soccer) club
  • Pillar System, a system of government in fictional manga
  • Pillar Data Systems, a company making enterprise storage systems
  • Pillar box, a free-standing post box in the United Kingdom
  • Pillarisation, a term describing the dealings of the Dutch and Belgians in their multicultural societies
  • The Pillar, an LGBT publication
  • "Pillars" (song), signature song of rock band Sunny Day Real Estate

Famous quotes containing the word pillar:

    Nights, I squat in the cornucopia
    Of your left ear, out of the wind,

    Counting the red stars and those of plum-color.
    The sun rises under the pillar of your tongue.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

    Fame’s pillar here, at last, we set,
    Out-during marble, brass, or jet,
    Robert Herrick (1591–1674)