Definitions for stele

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stele ste·le

Spelling: [stee-lee, steel for 1–3; steel, stee-lee for 4]

IPA: /ˈsti li, stil for 1–3; stil, ˈsti li for 4/

Stele is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in stele (eelst).

Definitions for stele

noun

1. an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
2. Architecture. a prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., bearing an inscription or the like.
3. (in ancient Rome) a burial stone.
4. Botany. the central cylinder or cylinders of vascular and related tissue in the stem, root, petiole, leaf, etc., of the higher plants.

Origin of stele

1810-20; Greek stḗlē, akin to histánai to make stand, Latin stāre to stand

Examples for stele

The seuenthe (eighth), to stele nor depryue no mannes goodes by thefte.

A spiral of green symbols began to circle the stele, then a spiral of yellow.

Lindsay got up and strode toward the microphone by the stele.

Here there was formerly an altar; and a stele of Thtmosis IV.

The celebrated Israel stele from this temple is his principal inscription.

The stele from the Borgia collection, at present in Naples, resembles it in general style.

The stele of Jehawmelek, king of Gebal, found here, is one of the most important of Phoenician monuments.

The Aristion stele may be taken as an example of the second order.

On another, a later Egyptian stele, the tree of life is the sycamore.

Of the 282 laws once carved upon the stele, all are still legible.