a tall pointed structure on the top of a building, especially a church (教堂等頂部的)尖塔,尖頂 a magnificent view of the spires of the city 全城建築物尖頂盡收眼底的美景。
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’.