A church spire could be seen in the distance.
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Spire
//spaɪə//
Synonyms for "spire" (206 found)
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Strong matches (61)
crownculmculmenculminationcupolacurl upwardsderrickdomeedgeextreme limitextremityfangfire towerflagfloatfloral leafflyfly aloftfoliolefootstalk
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Related words (103)
mountaintopne plus ultraneedleno place highernoonobeliskobservation towerpagodapeakpectenpedicelpedunclepetalpetiolepetiolulepetioluspilasterpilepillarpine needle
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pinnaclepitchplanepointpoisepoleprojectionpylonpyramidrakeratchetrearrear upreedridgeriserise upsawtoothseed leafseedstalksepalseventh heavenshaftskyskyscrapersnagsnagglesoarspathespearspiralsprocketspurstalkstand on tiptoestand upstandpipestemstipestipulastipulestockstrawstupasummitsurgeswarm upsweep uptake offtelevision masttigellatiptip toptip-toptoothtoptopetourtowertrunkturretupupgoupgrowupheaveupmostupper extremityuppermostupriseupspinupstreamupsurgeupswarmupwindutmostvertexvery topwater towerwindmill towerzenithzoom
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Translations
66 translations across 27 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- връх noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- пик noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- шпил noun (tapering architectural structure)
Catalan
2 entries- agulla noun (tapering architectural structure)
- cuculla noun (tapering architectural structure)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 尖塔 noun (tapering architectural structure)
- 尖頂 /尖顶 noun (tapering architectural structure)
Czech
3 entries- věžička noun (tapering architectural structure)
- špička noun (tapering architectural structure)
- špička noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
Danish
1 entries- spir noun (tapering architectural structure)
Dutch
4 entries- spits noun (tapering architectural structure)
- top noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- toppunt noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- torenspits noun (tapering architectural structure)
Esperanto
1 entries- spajro noun (tapering architectural structure)
Finnish
4 entries- huippu noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- kärki noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- spiira noun (tapering architectural structure)
- suippotorni noun (tapering architectural structure)
French
1 entries- flèche noun (tapering architectural structure)
German
2 entries- Turmhelm noun (tapering architectural structure)
- Turmspitze noun (tapering architectural structure)
Hungarian
4 entries- csúcs noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- orom noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- templomtorony noun (tapering architectural structure)
- tetőcsúcs noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
Icelandic
2 entries- spíra noun (tapering architectural structure)
- turnspíra noun (tapering architectural structure)
Ido
1 entries- flecho noun (tapering architectural structure)
Irish
2 entries- spuaic noun (tapering architectural structure)
- stuaic noun (tapering architectural structure)
Italian
4 entries- cuspide noun (tapering architectural structure)
- guglia noun (tapering architectural structure)
- pinnacolo noun (tapering architectural structure)
- punta noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
Japanese
1 entries- 尖塔 noun (tapering architectural structure)
Korean
1 entries- 첨탑 noun (tapering architectural structure)
Marathi
2 entries- मनोरा noun (tapering architectural structure)
- मेरुशिखर noun (tapering architectural structure)
Māori
3 entries- koeko noun (tapering architectural structure)
- koinga noun (tapering architectural structure)
- koinga noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- spir noun (tapering architectural structure)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- spir noun (tapering architectural structure)
Polish
1 entries- iglica noun (tapering architectural structure)
Portuguese
4 entries- agulha noun (tapering architectural structure)
- coruchéu noun (tapering architectural structure)
- cume noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- cúpula noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
Russian
4 entries- верху́шка noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- маку́шка noun (top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit)
- шпиль noun (tapering architectural structure)
- шпиц noun (tapering architectural structure)
Spanish
2 entries- aguja noun (tapering architectural structure)
- chapitel noun (tapering architectural structure)
Swedish
2 entries- spira noun (tapering architectural structure)
- tornspira noun (tapering architectural structure)
Ukrainian
1 entries- шпиль noun (tapering architectural structure)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
I saw the mouldering ruin of an abbey overrun with ivy, and the taper spire of a village church rising from the brow of a neighboring hill.
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To the west a dark church spire rose up against a marigold sky.
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Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism.
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