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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 stepel, from Old English stīpel, stȳpel, stīepel (“tower, steeple”), from Proto-West Germanic *staupil, from Proto-Germanic *staupilaz (“that which is steep, tower, steeple”), equivalent to steep + -le. Cognate with Old Norse stǫpull (“tower, steeple”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0