Noun: steeple
| Singular | steeple |
| Plural | steeples |
Sample Sentences
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Above the session-room of the Council is the steeple, and in the steeple is the belfry, where exists, and has existed time out of mind, the pride and wonder of the village—the great clock of the borough of Vondervotteimittiss. [1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Devil in the Belfry:]
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So, the woman and the child had gone by, and gone on, and five had sounded from the steeples. [1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Little Dorrit’s Party”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 1st book (Poverty), pages 126–127:]
Nouns inflected like steeple
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English stepel, from Old English stīpel, stȳpel, stīepel (“tower, steeple”), from Proto-West Germanic *staupil, from Proto-Germanic *staupilaz (“that which is steep, tower, steeple”), equivalent to steep + -le. Cognate with Old Norse stǫpull (“tower, steeple”). See: Middle English Nouns '
stepel', Old English Nouns '
stīpel', Old Norse Nouns '
stǫpull'.
Verbs referencing "steeple"
French Nouns
steeple, Danish Nouns
stabel, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
stopul, Old Norse Nouns
stapi.