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5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
originFrom Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0