Definitions for spired

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Spelling: [spahyuh rd]

IPA: /spaɪərd/

Spired is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in spired (deiprs).

Definitions for spired

noun

1. a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
2. a similar construction forming the upper part of a steeple.
3. a tapering, pointed part of something; a tall, sharp-pointed summit, peak, or the like:
4. the highest point or summit of something:
5. a sprout or shoot of a plant, as an acrospire of grain or a blade or spear of grass.

adjective

1. having a spire.

verb (used without object)

1. to shoot or rise into spirelike form; rise or extend to a height in the manner of a spire.

Origin of spired

First recorded in 1600-10; spire¹ + -ed³

Examples for spired

Small and formal cedars pointed their spired heads toward the spring sky.

Leaving half a dozen men in the boat, he took the rest, ten mighty archers of Khawarizm, in spired helmets and tiger-skin cloaks.

It has triple belfry windows, and a spired stair turret, but the shallowness of the buttresses detracts from its impressiveness.

Imposing, even in its shabbiness, stood the old house, at the end of an avenue of spired cedars.

On each side of the window, which is in the front, is a niche (with) spired top.

It never occurred to the in- spired writers that polygamy was a crime.

They saw the glint of the sun on lance-tip and spired helmet.

Up they thrust—domed and arched, spired and horned, pyramided, fanged and needled.

On his head was a green silk turban, wound about a spired helmet chased with gold.

He drew his scimitar and advanced, confident in his spired helmet and close-meshed mail.