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stee·ple

(stē′pəl)

1. A tower rising above the roof of a building, such as a church, and usually surmounted by a spire.

2. A spire.

[Middle English stepel, from Old English stēpel.]

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steeple

(ˈstiːpəl)

1. (Architecture) a tall ornamental tower that forms the superstructure of a church, temple, etc

2. (Architecture) such a tower with the spire above it

3. any spire or pointed structure

[Old English stēpel; see steep¹]

ˈsteepled adj

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stee•ple

(ˈsti pəl)

n.

1. an ornamental construction, usu. ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.

2. a tower terminating in such a construction.

3. a spire.

[before 1000; Old English stēpel tower. See steep¹, -le]

stee′pled, adj.

spire, steeple - A spire is the tall pointed roof of a tower or the tall pointed structure on top of a steeple; a steeple is the tower plus the spire.

steeple

noun spire, tower, belfry The church had a steeple, a bell tower and a clock.

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Translations

الجُزْء العُلوي من بُرْج الكَنيسَهبُرْجُ الكَنِيسَة

kostelní věžvěžička

spir

kirkontorni

zvonik

templomtorony

turn

campanile guglia

尖塔

뾰족탑

bėgimas su kliūtimis

smailezvanu tornis

torenspits

kirkespir spir

wieża

campanário torre da igreja

колокольня

kostolná veža

kyrktorn

ยอดหลังคา

kilise kulesikilise/çan kulesi

ngọn tháp

尖塔

steeple

[ˈstiːpl] N → aguja f, chapitel m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

steeple

[ˈstiːp^əl] n → clocher m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

steeple

n → Kirchturm m

steeple

steeplechase

n (for horses) → Jagdrennen nt, → Hindernisrennen nt; (for runners) → Hindernislauf m

steeplechaser

n (= horse) → Steepler m; (= jockey) → Reiter(in) m(f) → in einem Jagdrennen; (= runner) → Hindernisläufer(in) m(f)

steeplejack

n → Turmarbeiter(in) m(f)

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steeple

[ˈstiːpl] n → campanile m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

steeple

(ˈstiːpl) noun

a high tower of a church etc, usually having a spire.

ˈsteeplechase noun

a race on horseback or on foot across open country, over hedges etc, or over a course on which obstacles (eg fences, hedges etc) have been made.

steeple

→ بُرْجُ الكَنِيسَة věžička spir Kirchturm καμπαναριό campanario kirkontorni clocher zvonik campanile 尖塔 뾰족탑 torenspits spir wieża campanário, torre da igreja колокольня kyrktorn ยอดหลังคา kilise kulesi ngọn tháp 尖塔

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"Probably; and those steeples, pointed and sculptured, that we catch a glimpse of yonder, are similar to those that I have heard described at Chambord."

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-- It runs: -- Vondervotteimittis -- Vonder, lege Donder -- Votteimittis, quasi und Bleitziz- Bleitziz obsol: -- pro Blitzen." This derivative, to say the truth, is still countenanced by some traces of the electric fluid evident on the summit of the steeple of the House of the Town-Council.

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"I am bringing it from the frownery - the one over there with the gilded steeple."

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And the people - ah, the people - They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone - They are neither man nor woman - They are neither brute nor human - They are Ghouls: - And their king it is who tolls: - And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls

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But, high up in the steeple! There the foul blast roars and whistles!

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From this station, as I pleased myself with imagining, Gage may have beheld his disastrous victory on Bunker Hill (unless one of the tri-mountains intervened), and Howe have marked the approaches of Washington's besieging army; although the buildings since erected in the vicinity have shut out almost every object, save the steeple of the Old South, which seems almost within arm's length.