Usually means: Tall, pointed projection on buildings.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. spire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spire: Merriam-Webster
  3. spire, spire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spire, spire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spire: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spire: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spire, spire, spire: Wordnik
  8. spire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spire: Wiktionary
  10. spire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spire: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spire: Dictionary.com
  14. spire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SPIRE, Spire (Atlanta), Spire (Denver), Spire (Seattle building), Spire (activity tracker), Spire (disambiguation), Spire (mollusc), Spire (social networking service), Spire (synthesizer), Spire, The Spire (comics), The Spire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spire: Rhymezone
  20. spire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spire: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spire: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)
  2. spire: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  3. -spire: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SPIRe: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spire: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spire: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPIRE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. spire: Glossary of Medieval Architecture

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noun:  (now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.
noun:  A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
noun:  Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
noun:  A sharp or tapering point.
noun:  (architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
noun:  The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
noun:  (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
verb:  (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
verb:  To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with a spire.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.
noun:  One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
noun:  A spiral.
noun:  (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

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