Title: A pillar of society - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
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If you describe someone as a pillar of society or a pillar of the community, you mean that they are an active and respected member of a group of people. He is a pillar of society, the son every mother would love to have. My father had been a pillar of the community. See also: of, pillar, society
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a pillar of society
a person regarded as a particularly responsible citizen. The use of pillar to mean ‘a person regarded as a mainstay or support for something’ is recorded from medieval times; Pillars of Society was the English title of an 1888 play by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen . See also: