stela

American  

[stee-luh] / ˈsti lə /

noun

PLURAL

stelae

1. stele.

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Example Sentences

Not only have times significantly changed but, in the great Ford outdoors, a stela from a Theosophical Society pilgrimage played a century ago could easily be imagined buried on the hillside.

From Los Angeles Times

There, a battered stone stela excavated in 1989 bears a Long Count date fragment that may refer to an unknown event around 300 B.C.E.

From Science Magazine

Among the crosses were a dozen stone slabs, resembling stela.

From New York Times

And looking higher still I saw an orange stela, memorializing the Nagorno-Karabakh residents who had died in World War II.

From New York Times

But this time he headed toward the popular Greek and Roman galleries, where he stopped before a Greek stela memorializing the death of a child, from the fifth century B.C.

From The New Yorker