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STELA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stela mean?
• STELA (noun)
The noun STELA has 1 sense:
1. an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
Familiarity information: STELA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
stela; stele
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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