Meaning

(countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
2. (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
3. (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
4. (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
5. (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
6. Made of steel.
7. Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
8. (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.

Example Sentences

Þe alle þine leomen wule to-draȝen. þeh þu weore stel al.

Weman...with wordis cane rycht wele our-cum mene hard as stele.

Ocearium stæli.

Accearium steeli.

Employeng the steell of his swerd the most best wyse that in hym was possible.

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.

Word Forms

• steels
• steele
• steeling
• steeled

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Use steel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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