Definitions for SPIRE
spaɪərspire

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. steeple, spirenoun

   a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spirenoun

   Etymology: spira, Latin; spira, Italian; spira, Swedish.

   1. A curve line; any thing wreathed or contorted; a curl; a twist; a wreath.

   His head
   Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;
   With burnish’d neck of verdant gold, erect
   Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass
   Floated redundant. John Milton.

   A dragon’s fiery form belied the god,
   Sublime on radiant spires he rode. Dryden.

   Air seems to consist of spires contorted into small spheres, through the interstices of which the particles of light may freely pass; it is light, the solid substance of the spires being very small in proportion to the spaces they take up. George Cheyne.

   2. Any thing growing up taper; a round pyramid, so called perhaps because a line drawn round and round in less and less circles, would be a spire; a steeple.

   With glist’ring spires and pinnacles adorn’d. John Milton.

   He cannot make one spire of grass more or less than he hath made. Matthew Hale, Orig. of Mankind.

   These pointed spires that wound the ambient sky,
   Inglorious change! shall in destruction lie. Matthew Prior.

   3. The top or uppermost point.

   ’Twere no less than a traducement to silence, that
   Which to the spire and top of praises vouch’d,
   Wou’d seem but modest. William Shakespeare.

2. To Spireverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To shoot up pyramidically.

   It will grow to a great bigness; but it is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   2. [ Spiro, Latin.]To breathe. Not in use. Edmund Spenser.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spire

   A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires are typically made of stonework or brickwork, or else of timber structures with metal cladding, ceramic tiling, roof shingles, or slates on the exterior.Since towers supporting spires are usually square, square-plan spires emerge directly from the tower's walls, but octagonal spires are either built for a pyramidal transition section called a broach at the spire's base, or else freed spaces around the tower's summit for decorative elements like pinnacles. The former solution is known as a broach spire. Small or short spires are known as spikes, spirelets, or flèches.

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1. spire

   A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure typically found on top of a building or tower, particularly churches and cathedrals. It is often used as an architectural element to enhance the vertical emphasis of the building.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spireverb

   to breathe

2. Spirenoun

   a slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat

3. Spirenoun

   a tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself

4. Spirenoun

   a tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting

5. Spirenoun

   the top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit

6. Spireverb

   to shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire

7. Spirenoun

   a spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist

8. Spirenoun

   the part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n

9. Etymology: [OE. spire, spir, a blade of grass, a young shoot, AS. spr; akin to G. spier a blade of grass, Dan. spire a sprout, sprig, Sw. spira a spar, Icel. spra.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spire

   A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from the Old English word spir, meaning a sprout, shoot, or stalk of grass. Currently, the largest spire to be part of the architecture of another building is the spire mounted on the recently completed Q1 residential tower on the Gold Coast in Australia.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spire

   spīr, n. a winding line like the threads of a screw: a curl: a wreath: a tapering body, a slender stalk, a shoot or sprout: any one of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges—the Marram, Reed canary-grass, &c.: the top or summit of anything: a very acute pyramidal roof in common use over the towers of churches.—v.i. to sprout, shoot up.—v.t. to furnish with a spire.—adjs. Spīred, having a spire; Spir′ulate, spiral in form or arrangement; Spī′ry, of a spiral form: wreathed: tapering like a spire or a pyramid: abounding in spires. [Fr.,—L. spira; Gr. speira, anything wound round or upon a thing; akin to eirein, to fasten together in rows.]

CrunchBaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spire

   Spire is a new type of media company-one that was created specifically to serve the needs of busy, discerning consumers around the world. The company’s goal is to create and deliver unique and compelling lifestyle content that helps people with discerning taste to live life well.Spire’s flagship brand is Suzanne’s Files, which provides savvy perspective on quality lifestyle. Suzanne and her International Collective of people share in-the-know insight across a broad range of lifestyle categories-travel destinations, food and wine, arts and culture, wellness and beauty, gift giving and more. Her personal picks and selected finds are pithy, pointed and opinionated.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SPIRE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Spire is ranked #55619 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Spire surname appeared 369 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Spire.
   
   93.5% or 345 total occurrences were White.
   2.7% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.3% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Church
   • Tower

Anagrams for SPIRE »

1. siper

2. spier

How to pronounce SPIRE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say SPIRE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of SPIRE in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of SPIRE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of SPIRE in a Sentence

1. Heinrich Heine:

   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.

2. Daniel Woodruff:

   The trumpet on the Angel Moroni statue fell off, and there is minor displacement of some of the temple's smaller spire stones.

3. Kevin Bellicourt:

   It makes a team like Spire have a business model where, in three years, we feel like we can be a top 15 Cup team. With this car, that's possible.

4. Suzanne Scott:

   If Galaxys Edge had been set on Tatooine, fans would have enjoyed scrutinizing every detail against Galaxys Edge cinematic counterpart, in creating Black Spire Outpost, they get all the appeal and familiarity of a spaceport/border planet, plus all of the creative freedom.

5. Benjamin Mouton:

   On the other hand, we must recreate the cathedral's silhouette and rebuild the spire. That to me is indispensable.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=SPIRE
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=SPIRE
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SPIRE
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=SPIRE
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=SPIRE
8. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spire
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html