Definitions for steeple

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steeple stee·ple

Spelling: [stee-puh l]

IPA: /ˈsti pəl/

Steeple is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in steeple (eeelpst).

Definitions for steeple

noun

1. an ornamental construction, usually 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. (loosely) a spire.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with or form into a steeple or steeplelike configuration.

Origin of steeple

before 1000; Middle English stepel steeple, tower, Old English stēpel tower. See steep¹, -le

Examples for steeple

Come, take that parson's steeple hat and his cloak, and let us be going.

It is bound around the hull of ships and lifted into tower and steeple.

House of God, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it.

What, I 'd like to know, do you and I want with that place there with the steeple?

There was a lookout, too, from the steeple, that showed our approach was already known.

But then it came in my head, 'How if the steeple itself should fall?'

Note to Wall Street tourists: If you need to pee, look for the steeple.

Toward the building with half a steeple Mr. Bangs started forthwith.

But the steeple stands foremost, in our thoughts, as well as locally.

I woke him and asked why the flags were flying on Kilmore steeple.