What is another word for steeples?

Pronunciation: [stˈiːpə͡lz] (IPA)

Steeples are tall, pointed structures often found on or near churches and other religious buildings. Synonyms for steeples include spires, bell towers, campaniles, minarets, and belfries. Spires are tapered structures that rise to a point and are often ornately decorated. Bell towers are tall structures that hold bells used to signal the time of day or call the faithful to worship. Campaniles are free-standing towers that also house bells. Minarets are slender towers common in Islamic architecture, used to call the faithful to prayer. Belfries are towers that house bells, and their name comes from "belle," the French word for "bell." These synonyms all connote the grandeur and significance of religious structures.

What are the hypernyms for Steeples?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Steeples

In thus talking he seemed different, and even looked different, she thought, against the river, with the steeples and towers for background.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
How well remembered are the copses on the hills, and the steeples, those time-honoured landmarks to wandering riders!
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
He saw several churches, and some of them were large, with massive towers and steeples.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard

Famous quotes with Steeples

  • Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.
    Karl Philipp Moritz
  • We bore round the point toward the old anchoring ground of the hide ships, and there, covering the sand hills and the valleys... flickering all over with the lamps of its streets and houses, lay a city of one hundred thousand inhabitants. The dock into which we drew, and the streets about it, were densely crowded with express wagons and handcarts... Though this crowd I made my way, along the well-built and well-light streets, as alive as by day, where boys in high-keyed voices where already crying the latest New York papers. When I awoke in the morning, and looked from my windows over the city of San Francisco, with its storehouses, towers, and steeples; its courthouses, theaters, and hospitals, its daily journals, its well-filled learned professions, its fortresses and lighthouses; its wharves and harbor... when I saw all these things, and reflected on what I once saw here, and what now surrounded me, I could scarcely keep my hold on reality at all, or the genuineness of anything.
    Richard Henry Dana
  • Sphere Music — Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music — pure, unmixed music — in which no wail mingles.
    Henry David Thoreau
  • Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.
    Hans Christian Andersen
  • An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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