steeple
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈstiːpəl/
:
campanario
- Then the city alarm rang out again, and again it clanged from the steeple of Ivan the Warrior's cathedral.
- cross on the steeple
- church steeple
Do you guys remember this was it, This is the church, this is the steeple.
- Do you guys remember this was it, This is the church, this is the steeple.
- But I actually like the confidence of kind of putting the steeple up kind of high, like a giant triangular middle finger.
Examples
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There was a church nearby, a small stone structure with a white steeple and little windows of stained glass.
Fiction book (1990) -
Right at the church steeple.
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Is there a bell inside the steeple?
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Well, first we built the church with a tall steeple for the bell.
Fiction book (1990) -
Through the window, I see the sunlight reflecting from the copper steeple of St. Wolfgang's church in the woods.
Fiction book (1990) -
Just north of the island tip is the steeple of the city's tallest structure, Trinity Church.
Fiction book (2002) -
Down at the corner, the bell in the white steeple of the Dutch Reformed Church began to clang.
Fiction book (1991) -
The First Parish Church of Concord stands at the top of the hill, its steeple capped in gold.
Fiction book (1995) -
The old church was white-painted board, outfitted with a steeple, and coming unknit at all its angles.
Fiction book (1995) -
The hurricane took out the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston.
Synonyms
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1.0
A tall, narrow thing that looks like a building
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5.8
A tall, pointed top on a building, often a church
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8.4
A tall, thin tower at a mosque where someone calls people to prayer
1
9.9
A tall bell tower near a church or standing alone
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2.1
A tall part of a church that often has bells
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Steeple comes from an old word for a tall 'post' or 'pillar', so imagine a long pole reaching up from a church roof. That's why a steeple is a tall, narrow tower that often ends in a point.