pillar of strength

1. 1.

   a person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort

   Synonymstower of strength

   Broaderpatron

Questions about pillar of strength

What does pillar of strength mean?

pillar of strength means "a person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort".

What is another word for pillar of strength?

Close synonyms include tower of strength. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pillar of strength a common word?

pillar of strength is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.