Steeple Synonyms

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Synonyms for Steeple

spire
A single turn of a spiral; a whorl.
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turret
A small tower or tower-shaped projection on a building.
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tourelle (French)
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belfry
A bell tower, especially one attached to a building.
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pointed belfry
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cupola
A domelike structure surmounting a roof or dome, often used as a lookout or to admit light and air.
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ziggurat
A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, in the form of a terraced pyramid with each story smaller than the one below it
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campanile
A bell tower, especially one near but not attached to a church or other public building.
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minaret
A tall slender tower attached to a mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a muezzin or a recording of a muezzin summons the people to prayer.
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Words Related to Steeple

tower
A person or thing that resembles a tower in height, strength, dominance, etc.
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Bumpstead
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gate-house
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Steeple Sentence Examples

  • A nearby steeple had been broken off short and the fragments lay heaped beside it.

  • The story is that the Abbot of St Augustine, Canterbury, diverted the funds by which the sea-wall protecting Earl Godwin's island was kept up, for the purpose of building Tenterden steeple, the consequence being that in 1099 an inundation took place and ."Tenterden steeple was the cause of the Goodwin Sands."

  • He died quite suddenly and in the full swing of his literary activity on the 13th of October 1899, at Steeple Court, Botley, Hants.

  • Of a Franciscan friary there remains the Perpendicular Grey Friars' Steeple, and the doorway remains of a priests' college founded in 1502.

  • The central steeple fell in 1506, but was rebuilt, the new tower with its spire reaching a height of 198 ft.

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