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Crossword-Solution: SPIRE 5 letters, 196 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Spire v. i. To breathe.
Spire n. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or
of wheat.
Spire n. 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.
Spire n. A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in
blasting.
Spire n. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
Spire v. i. To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
Spire n. A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
Spire n. The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the
straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.

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Word Anagrams
SPIRE anagram EPRIS, PERIS, PIERS, PREIS, PRIES, PRISE, RESIP, RIPES, SPEIR, SPIER

We have 196 clues for the answer “SPIRE”

Clue Answers
"A finger pointing to Heaven." 1 answer
A church could have one 1 answer
A mass of pyramidal form. 1 answer
A series of curls 1 answer
About 29.5% of the Burj Khalifa's height 1 answer
Pointed church roof structure 1 answer
Architectural high point 1 answer
Architectural topper 1 answer
Burj Khalifa feature 1 answer
Cathedral top 1 answer
Chapel top 1 answer
Chrysler Building feature 1 answer
Church bell locale 1 answer
Church bell location 1 answer
Church bell's place 1 answer
Church feature seen from a distance 1 answer
Church pinnacle 1 answer
Church riser 1 answer
Church steeple 1 answer
Church's peak 1 answer
Church's upper point 1 answer
Coil or curl 1 answer
Cross bearer, perhaps 1 answer
Cross site, often 1 answer
Empire State Building peak 1 answer
Empire State Building topper 1 answer
Feature destroyed in the 2019 Notre Dame fire 1 answer
Feature of a Gothic cathedral 1 answer
Feature of the Chrysler Building. 1 answer
Feature on a steeple 1 answer
Fleche 1 answer
Freedom Tower feature 1 answer
Gothic church feature 1 answer
Gothic church projection 1 answer
Gothic church topper 1 answer
High point of a skyline, perhaps 1 answer
Horizon standout 1 answer
It may be over the heads of the congregation 1 answer
Noted feature of each of the world's tallest buildings from 1311-1894 1 answer
One World Trade Center topper 1 answer
One making a point at church? 1 answer
Part of a city skyline. 1 answer
Part of a steeple 1 answer
Part of a village skyline 1 answer
Part of the Notre-Dame Cathedral destroyed by a 2019 fire 1 answer
Peak on a church 1 answer
Pinnacle of religion? 1 answer
Pinnacle tip. 1 answer
Place for a finial 1 answer
Place for an epi 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPIRE (5)

The man who escaped at the former place tells a wonderful story of the strangeness of its coiling flow, and how he looked down from the church spire and saw the houses of the village rising like ghosts out of its inky nothingness.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Here he sought a pretentious building that rose spire-like toward the heavens, its outer walls elaborately wrought with delicate carvings and intricate mosaics.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The Hammer of God The little village of Bohun Beacon was perched on a hill so steep that the tall spire of its church seemed only like the peak of a small mountain.
The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995
Two fields away Bestwood began, with a jumble of roofs and red house-ends, out of which rose the church tower and the spire of the Congregational chapel.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995
And he said to the wind, “Come, follow; come, follow, With whistle and pipe, and rustle and hollo.” And the wind wound round at his desire, As if he had been the gold cock on the spire.
At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald 2008

Quotes with SPIRE (3)

Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?""Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain.""Done that once today," Jason said.
Rick Riordan The Lost Hero
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before — the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compresse…
Robert Hughes The Shock of the New
and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people
Ani DiFranco
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 350 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).