spire meaning
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[spʌɪə] WSpire
- 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 one mounted on the recently completed Q1 residential tower on the Gold Coast in Australia.
FR spire 
- NounPLspires
- (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- A sharp or tapering point.
- A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
- A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- The spire of the church rose high above the town.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
- A spiral.
- (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
- (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.
- VerbSGspiresPRspiringPT, PPspired
- Of a seed, plant etc.: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
- To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
- VI OBS To breathe.
- Of a seed, plant etc.: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
- In 1999, they regilded the spire of the Shwedagon Pagoda, which now glitters with 53 tons of gold and 4,341 diamonds on the crowning orb.
- His own reluctant namesake, Mount Beckey, rises some 8,500 feet in a largely uncharted subrange near the Cathedral Spires of southeastern Alaska.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of spire in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "spire" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb.