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STEEPLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
Synonyms:
spire; steeple
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("steeple" is a kind of...):
tower (a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building)
Domain category:
church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steeple"):
pinnacle ((architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower)
Context examples:
Accordingly one day my nurse carried me thither, but I may truly say I came back disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
