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stempel

stempel noun: a shelf set into a mineshaft for storing waste material, or for use as a step or support.

Noun

stempel (plural stempels)

  1. A shelf set into a mineshaft for storing waste material, or for use as a step or support.

Proper noun capitalized: Stempel

Stempel (plural Stempels)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of stempel

Noun
pluralstempels
alternative formstemple
Proper noun
pluralStempels

Origin of stempel

Borrowed from Low German Stempel or Dutch stempel, akin to Old English stempan (“to stamp”), all from Proto-West Germanic *stampōn, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną (“to compress, squeeze, stamp”).

Borrowed from German Stempel.

Words that rhyme with stempel

Questions about stempel

What does stempel mean?
Stempel means a shelf set into a mineshaft for storing waste material, or for use as a step or support.
What part of speech is stempel?
Stempel can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of stempel?
The plural of stempel is stempels.

Words near stempel in the dictionary

  1. stemomastoid
  2. stemona
  3. stemonaceous
  4. stemonas
  5. Stemp
  6. stempel
  7. stempels
  8. Stemper
  9. Stempers
  10. stemphol
  11. Stempien

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stempel (page history and authors); Stempel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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