The pylon was about to collapse.
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Pylon
/ˈpaɪ.lɒn/
Synonyms for "pylon" (94 found)
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7 entriesCollocations
5 entriesbridge pylonelectric pylonpylon basetemple pylontransmission pylon
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
4 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- стълб noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Czech
1 entries- stožár noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Esperanto
1 entries- pilono noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Finnish
1 entries- sähköpylväs noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
French
1 entries- pylône noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
German
1 entries- Strommast noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Greek
1 entries- πυλώνας noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Italian
2 entries- pilone noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
- traliccio noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Japanese
1 entries- 鉄塔 noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Māori
3 entries- pou hiko matua noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
- pouhiko noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
- pouwaea noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Polish
1 entries- słup wysokiego napięcia noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Portuguese
2 entries- poste noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
- torre noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Russian
2 entries- опо́ра noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
- пило́н noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Spanish
1 entries- torre noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Swedish
1 entries- elstolpe noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Turkish
1 entries- pilon noun (a towerlike structure used to support high-voltage electricity cables)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
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After two pylonless months, July's pylon comes all the way from the hills outside Wellington, New Zealand.
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These smaller pylons have might not possess the majesty of the giant 400 kV pylons, but they have a squat charm all of their own and 132 kV was the original voltage of the National Grid when it was rolled out in the 1920s.
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