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PILLAR
Surname or Lastname
North German, Danish, and Dutch
North German, Danish, and Dutch : from a shortened form of the personal name Billulf, composed of the elements bil ‘sword’, ‘axe’ + wulf ‘wolf’, or some other name with bil as the first element. For German, however, the most likely source is Pille, a French Huguenot name from the Dauphiné.English : variant spelling of Pill 2.French : habitational name from any of various minor places in northern France, so named from Old French pile, Latin pila, ‘pillar’, ‘column’. In Middle French pile denoted a trough used for crushing or pounding various materials, such as lime, and in some cases the surname may have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for someone engaged in such work.
Girl/Female
Biblical
A foot of a pillar, provision.
Girl/Female
Biblical
My pillar.
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Muslim
Pillar, Post, Support
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Muslim
Support. Pillar. Confidence.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Pillar, Prop, Support
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Muslim
Pillar of the faith
Girl/Female
Danish, French, German, Latin, Spanish
Pillar
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Devon)
English (mainly Devon) : from Old French pilleur ‘plunderer’, formerly used as a nickname for a bailiff.English (mainly Devon) : topographic name for someone who lived by a tidal creek (see Pill, Pyle).English (mainly Devon) : topographic name from Old French piler ‘pillar’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Pillar 1–3.German : variant of Pille (from Bilihar, composed of bil ‘sword’ + hari ‘army’).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.
Boy/Male
Indian
The pillar of the faith
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Muslim
Pillar, Post, Support
Boy/Male
Muslim
Imaad Udeen | عیماد یودین
The pillar of the faith
Imaad Udeen | عیماد یودین
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Greek
Pointed pillar.
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Indian
Pillar of the faith (Islam)
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Greek
Pointed pillar.
Boy/Male
Indian
Pillar, Post, Support
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Muslim
Pillar of the faith (Islam)
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Indian
Pillar, Post, Support
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Muslim
Pillar of the religion (Islam)
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Hindu
Air, Belonging to the wind, God of the wind, Another name for Vishnu
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Tamil
The Goddess who is vedic in form
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Muslim/Islamic
Beautiful
Male
Chinese
strong, good.
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Worshipped by the Universe; Lord Hanumaan
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Australian, Danish, German, Latin, Polish, Swedish
Sincere; True; Faith; Truth
Female
African
a dreamer.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit
Goddess Lakshmi
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American, Australian, British, English
Broad
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English
Modernused for girls.
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v. i.
The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.
n.
Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.
n.
Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state.
n.
A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
v. t.
To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.
a.
Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.
a.
Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars.
n.
A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.
n.
That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.
n.
The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.
n.
The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.
n.
One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.
n.
A little pillar.
n.
Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.
n.
A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
n.
The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple.
n.
The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.
n.
The ruins of the fallen roof resulting from the removal of the pillars and stalls.
n.
A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused.