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# stele

«stele» in Mova's school dictionary: **An upright stone slab or pillar with writing or carvings…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a stele, stelae or steles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (history) An upright stone slab or pillar with writing or carvings on it, put up as a monument, gravestone or to record laws or events. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stele/#m1)

2) (science, botany) The central core of a plant's root or stem, which carries water and food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stele/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons about ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Maya and China, stelae recorded laws, victories and names of rulers; Hammurabi's law code is carved on a stele, and the Rosetta Stone is part of a stele. In older pupils' biology, the stele carries water through a root.

### examples

- Hammurabi's laws were carved on a tall black stele. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stele/#x1)
- The Rosetta Stone is a broken piece of a stele. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stele/#x2)
- The Maya put up stelae to honour their kings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stele/#x3)
- The stele marks the grave of an ancient soldier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stele/#x4)
- We saw a carved stele in the British Museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stele/#x5)
- The archaeologists cleaned the stele to read the old writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stele/#x6)

### note

Say «STEE-lee» (two syllables). Plural «stelae» (STEE-lee) or «steles». Do not mix up with «steel» (metal) or «steal» (take).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stele» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stele/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.