Usually means: Support structure for overhead cables.
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  1. pylon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pylon: Merriam-Webster
  3. pylon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pylon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pylon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pylon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pylon, pylon: Wordnik
  8. pylon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. pylon: Wiktionary
  11. pylon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. pylon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. pylon: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. pylon: Dictionary.com
  15. pylon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. pylon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Pylon (album), Pylon (architecture), Pylon (band), Pylon (disambiguation), Pylon (novel), Pylon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Pylon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. pylon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. pylon: Rhymezone
  21. pylon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. pylon: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pylon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pylon: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pylon: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. pylon: Legal dictionary

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  1. pylon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pylon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. pylon: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pylon: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Pylon: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.
noun:  (electricity) A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.
noun:  (architecture) A tall steel or concrete tower from which cables are strung.
noun:  A lighting mast; a freestanding support for floodlights.
noun:  (aviation) A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage.
noun:  (aviation, historical) A starting derrick for an aeroplane.
noun:  (aviation, historical) A post, tower, etc. as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight.
noun:  An obelisk.
noun:  A traffic cone.
noun:  (American football) An orange marker designating one of the four corners of the end zone in American football.
noun:  (medicine) A rigid prosthesis for the lower leg.

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