Library / English Dictionary

STELA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings

Synonyms:

stela; stele

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stela" is a kind of...):

antiquity (an artifact surviving from the past)

stone (building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose)

Instance hyponyms:

Rosetta Stone (a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics)

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