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say it: puh-LA-stur
pilaster is a noun meaning "a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached". It is pronounced /pəˈlæstɚ/ — puh-LA-stur. It carries one recorded sense.
a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pilaster come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.