a tall pointed structure on the top of a building, especially a church (教堂等顶部的)尖塔,尖顶 a magnificent view of the spires of the city 全城建筑物尖顶尽收眼底的美景。
Oxford Collocations DictionarySpire is used after these nouns:- cathedral
Word OriginOld English spīr ‘tall slender stem of a plant’; related to German Spier ‘tip of a blade of grass’.