All stele synonyms

noun stele

• minaret — a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
• cairn — A cairn is a pile of stones which marks a boundary, a route across rough ground, or the top of a mountain. A cairn is sometimes also built in memory of someone.
• cairns — a port in NE Australia, in Queensland. Pop: 98 981 (2001)
• footstone — a stone placed at the foot of a grave.
• gravestone — a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.
• erection — The action of erecting a structure or object.
• cenotaph — A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war.
• memorial — something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event, etc., as a monument or a holiday.
• monolith — an obelisk, column, large statue, etc., formed of a single block of stone.
• monument — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
• megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
• column — A column is a tall, often decorated cylinder of stone which is built to honour someone or forms part of a building.
• caryatid — a column, used to support an entablature, in the form of a draped female figure