'Steeple' definitions:
Definition of 'steeple'
From: WordNet
noun
A tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top [syn: steeple, spire]
Definition of 'Steeple'
From: GCIDE
- Steeple \Stee"ple\ (st[=e]"p'l), n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[=e]pel, st[=y]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood.
- Steeple bush (Bot.), a low shrub (Spiraea tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack.
- Steeple chase, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc.
- Steeple chaser, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase.
- Steeple engine, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead.
- Steeple house, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'steeple'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antenna tower,
- barbican,
- belfry,
- bell tower,
- campanile,
- cog,
- colossus,
- column,
- comb,
- crag,
- cupola,
- derrick,
- dome,
- fang,
- fire tower,
- harrow,
- jag,
- lantern,
- lighthouse,
- martello,
- martello tower,
- mast,
- minaret,
- monument,
- obelisk,
- observation tower,
- pagoda,
- peak,
- pecten,
- pilaster,
- pillar,
- pinnacle,
- pole,
- projection,
- pylon,
- pyramid,
- rake,
- ratchet,
- sawtooth,
- shaft,
- skyscraper,
- snag,
- snaggle,
- spire,
- sprocket,
- spur,
- standpipe,
- stupa,
- television mast,
- tooth,
- tope,
- tour,
- tower,
- turret,
- water tower,
- windmill tower