What is another word for spire?

Pronunciation: [spˈa͡ɪ͡ə] (IPA)

A spire is a tall and pointed architectural Finial that adds an ornamental and aesthetic value to buildings. Some different synonyms of spire include peak, pinnacle, apex, summit, tower, steeple, obelisk, and minaret. Each of these words has its unique connotation and usage, but they all describe an elevated point or peak of a structure or object. A steeple is a similar term but often refers explicitly to religious buildings and structures. Minarets are also a spire-like form that is frequently found on mosques and Islamic structures. While all of these words share a similarity to spire, they offer different characteristics, aesthetics, and contextual applications.

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What are the opposite words for spire?

A spire is a tall, pointed structure on top of a building, often found on churches and cathedrals. The word itself has few antonyms as it describes a specific type of architectural feature. However, some terms that could be considered antonyms may include words that describe structures that are squat or flat-topped. For example, a bungalow, a single-story house with a low-pitched roof, could be seen as a contrast to a spire. Additionally, an umbrella, with its wide and flat top, could be considered an opposite of a spire due to its lack of height and pointedness. However, these antonyms are loose associations and not strictly the opposite of spire.

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Usage examples for Spire

We came together behind an unusually high icy spire only a few hundred yards from the herd.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
So they reached the first gallery which ran round the base of the spire, and entered the interior part of it.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
But to be sure without it, we could not reach the very point of the spire.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse

Famous quotes with Spire

  • The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
    Heinrich Heine
  • Like all great churches, that are not mere store-houses of theology, Chartres expressed, besides whatever else it meant, an emotion, the deepest man ever felt,— the struggle of his own littleness to grasp the infinite. You may, if you like, figure in it a mathematic formula of infinity,— the broken arch, our finite idea of space; the spire, pointing, with its converging lines, to Unity beyond space; the sleepless, restless thrust of the vaults, telling the unsatisfied, incomplete, overstrained effort of man to rival the energy, intelligence and purpose of God. Thomas Aquinas and the schoolmen tried to put it in words, but their church is another chapter. In act, all man's work ends there;— mathematics, physics, chemistry, dynamics, optics, every sort of machinery science may invent,— to this favor come at last, as religion and philosophy did before science was born.
    Henry Adams
  • In essence, religion was love; in no case was it logic. Reason can reach nothing except through the senses; God, by essence, cannot be reached through the senses; if he is to be known at all, he must be known by contact of spirit with spirit, essence with essence; directly; by emotion; by ecstasy; by absorption of our existence with his; by substitution of his spirit for ours. The world had no need to wait five hundred years longer in order to hear this same result reaffirmed by Pascal. Saint Francis of Assisi had affirmed it loudly enough, even if the voice of Saint Bernard had been less powerful than it was. The Virgin had asserted it in tones more gentle, but anyone can still see how convincing, who stops a moment to feel the emotion that lifted her wonderful Chartres spire up to God.
    Henry Adams
  • 'They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception.'
    Anthony Burgess
  • An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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