stele
[stee-lee, steel for 1–3; steel, stee-lee for 4]
noun, plural ste·lai [stee-lahy] /ˈsti laɪ/, ste·les [stee-leez, steelz] /ˈsti liz, stilz/.
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
Architecture. a prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., bearing an inscription or the like.
(in ancient Rome) a burial stone.
Botany. the central cylinder or cylinders of vascular and related tissue in the stem, root, petiole, leaf, etc., of the higher plants.
Also stela (for defs 1–3).
Origin of stele
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Related Words for stele
ceremony, tombstone, statue, remembrance, headstone, plaque, mausoleum, stone, tablet, masterpiece, slab, pillar, testament, shrine, tomb, tribute, gravestone, marker, monument, obeliskExamples from the Web for stele
Historical Examples of stele
The seuenthe (eighth), to stele nor depryue no mannes goodes by thefte.
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The Aristion stele may be taken as an example of the second order.
Here there was formerly an altar; and a stele of Thtmosis IV.
Of the 282 laws once carved upon the stele, all are still legible.
On another, a later Egyptian stele, the tree of life is the sycamore.
Byways of Ghost-LandElliott O'Donnell
stele
noun plural stelae (ˈstiːliː) or steles (ˈstiːlɪz, stiːlz)
Also called (for senses 1, 2): stela (ˈstiːlə)
Word Origin for stele
C19: from Greek stēlē; related to Greek histanai to stand, Latin stāre
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stele
[stēl, stē′lē]
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