The church's steeple is beginning to crumble with age.
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Steeple
//ˈstiːpəl//
Synonyms for "steeple" (58 found)
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Related words (29)
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1 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 24 languages.
Basque
1 entries- orratz noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Breton
1 entries- kloc'hdi noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Catalan
1 entries- campanar noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Czech
2 entries- kostelní věž noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
- špička věže noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Dutch
1 entries- kerktoren noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Esperanto
1 entries- preĝejturo noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Finnish
2 entries- kellotapuli noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
- kirkontorni noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
French
1 entries- clocher noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
German
1 entries- Kirchturm noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Hungarian
2 entries- templomtorony noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
- torony noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Icelandic
1 entries- kirkjuturn noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Irish
1 entries- spuaic noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Italian
1 entries- campanile noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Japanese
1 entries- 尖塔 noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Māori
1 entries- koeko noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Polish
1 entries- dzwonnica noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Portuguese
2 entries- campanário noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
- torre sineira noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Romanian
2 entries- clopotniță noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
- turlă noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Romansch
2 entries- clucher noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
- clutger noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Russian
1 entries- колоко́льня noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zvonik noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
- звоник noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Spanish
1 entries- campanario noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Swedish
1 entries- kyrktorn noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Ukrainian
1 entries- дзвіни́ця noun (a tall tower, often on a church)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The steeple of the cathedral of Seville used to be a minaret.
Source: tatoeba (707012)
What's the name of the church there with the crooked steeple?
Source: tatoeba (10352239)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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