steeple

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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsti(ː)pəl/
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈsti(ː)pɫ̩]
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• rhymes with -iːpəl
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• CMU ARPABET: S T IY1 P AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: campanariu — a tall tower, often on a church
• Asturian: campanil — a tall tower, often on a church
• Basque: orratz — a tall tower, often on a church
• Breton: kloc'hdi — a tall tower, often on a church
• Catalan: campanar — a tall tower, often on a church
• Czech: špička věže — a tall tower, often on a church
• Czech: kostelní věž — a tall tower, often on a church
• Dutch: kerktoren — a tall tower, often on a church
• Esperanto: preĝejturo — a tall tower, often on a church
• Finnish: kirkontorni — a tall tower, often on a church
• Finnish: kellotapuli — a tall tower, often on a church
• French: clocher — a tall tower, often on a church
• German: Kirchturm — a tall tower, often on a church
• Hungarian: templomtorony — a tall tower, often on a church
• Hungarian: torony — a tall tower, often on a church
• Icelandic: kirkjuturn — a tall tower, often on a church
• Irish: spuaic — a tall tower, often on a church
• Italian: campanile — a tall tower, often on a church
• Japanese: 尖塔 (sentō) — a tall tower, often on a church
• Māori: koeko — a tall tower, often on a church
• Polish: dzwonnica — a tall tower, often on a church
• Portuguese: campanário — a tall tower, often on a church
• Portuguese: torre sineira — a tall tower, often on a church
• Romanian: turlă — a tall tower, often on a church
• Romanian: clopotniță — a tall tower, often on a church
• Romansh: clutger — a tall tower, often on a church
• Romansh: clucher — a tall tower, often on a church
• Russian: колоко́льня (kolokólʹnja) — a tall tower, often on a church
• Serbo-Croatian: zvonik — a tall tower, often on a church
• Serbo-Croatian: звоник — a tall tower, often on a church
• Spanish: campanario — a tall tower, often on a church
• Spanish: campanil — a tall tower, often on a church
• Spanish: espadaña — a tall tower, often on a church
• Swedish: kyrktorn — a tall tower, often on a church
• Ukrainian: дзвіни́ця (dzvinýcja) — a tall tower, often on a church