Steele

American  

[steel] / stil /

noun

1. Sir Richard, 1672–1729, English essayist, journalist, dramatist, and political leader; born in Ireland.

2. Mount, a mountain in SW Yukon Territory, Canada, on the Alaska border in the St. Elias Range. 16,644 feet (5,074 meters).

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Steele British  

/ stiːl /

noun

1. Sir Richard. 1672–1729, British essayist and dramatist, born in Ireland; with Joseph Addison he was the chief contributor to the periodicals The Tatler (1709–11) and The Spectator (1711–12)

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Example Sentences

Clovis coach Cooper Steele said his team had to be aggressive with Centennial’s size, so the free throws the Huskies made were something that couldn’t be deterred.

From Los Angeles Times

Claude Steele ponders what happens when we feel that our social identity is being scrutinized in professional and educational settings.

From The Wall Street Journal

Claude Steele ponders what happens when we feel that our social identity is being scrutinized in professional and educational settings.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Steele opens his book with a hypothetical: a parent-teacher conference in an American middle school in which the student and his parents are black and the teacher is white.

From The Wall Street Journal

Steele wishes his No. 21-ranked team could have played a tougher schedule, if only to give the RedHawks more juice in the algorithms.

From The Wall Street Journal