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Meaning of Steele | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
stiːl

Definitions

  1. An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
  3. A town in St. Clair County, Alabama.
  4. A township in Conway County, Arkansas.
  5. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Arkansas.
  6. A township in Daviess County, Indiana.
  7. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky.
  8. A city in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
  9. A township in Rowan County, North Carolina.
  10. A small city, the county seat of Kidder County, North Dakota.
  11. A suburb of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Examples

“Adieu! faint-hearted instrument of lust; / That falselie hath betrayde our equale trust. / Hence-forth no more will I implore thine ayde, / Or thee, or man of cowardize upbrayde. / My little dilldo shall suply their kinde: / A knaue, that moues as light as leaues by winde; / That bendeth not, nor fouldeth anie deale, / But stands as stiff as he were made of steele; / And playes at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe, / And doeth my tickling swage with manie a sighe. / For, by saint Runnion! he'le refresh me well; / And neuer make my tender bellie swell.”
“The purest part thereof [of iron ore] which in Latine is called Nucleus ferri, i. the kernell or heart of the yron (and it is that which we call steele)”
“Shall yron breake the Northren yron, and the steele?”
“...Like a man of Steele.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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