stele
noun
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
steles
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pluralof stele.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Most impressive, the refurbished mosaics and a wall of 760 fragments of funerary steles.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
It consists of a field of massive gray steles designed to communicate sorrow, accompanied by an underground information center.
From Time ● Sep. 19, 2014
He also goes around to famous mountains, where they erect steles, stone monuments, which say that the Emperor's realm is now totally unified.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2012
Of those steles left standing, one is 60 feet tall and is among the largest structures in the ancient world.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
We here find an instance of one of these arched steles erected before a fortress.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
