Pilar

Pilar, Portuguese and Spanish for pillar, may refer to:

People

Places

Argentina

Brazil

Philippines

Elsewhere

Other uses

  • Pilar (boat), Ernest Hemingway's boat, also the protagonist in his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and his nickname for second wife Pauline Pfeiffer
  • Pilar College, in Zamboanga City, Philippines
  • Pilar tuco-tuco, a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae
  • Fort Pilar, a 17th-century military defence fortress in Zamboanga City, Philippines
  • Our Lady of the Pillar (Nuestra Señora del Pilar or María del Pilar), the name given to the Virgin Mary for her appearance in Spain, where she is commonly depicted as standing on top of a pillar
  • Treaty of Pilar, a pact signed among the rulers of the Argentine provinces of Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires
  • In medicine and healthcare and anatomy and physiology, pilar means a hair, or something hair-like or having to do with hair; see pilar cyst

See also

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