Stepney

[ step-nee ]

noun

1. a former borough of Greater London, England, now part of Tower Hamlets.

stepney

/ ˈstɛpnɪ /

noun

1. a spare tyre

Word History and Origins

Origin of Stepney¹

C20: from Stepney Street , Llanelli, the address of a tyre manufacturer

Example Sentences

Dr Joanne Grenfell, the Bishop of Stepney and the Church of England's lead safeguarding bishop, said the failings identified in the report into Smyth's abuse meant it was "now necessary for others to take up the baton".

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"I really appreciate that the Archbishop has wholeheartedly apologised for what he could have and should have done differently in 2013," the Rt Rev Joanne Grenfell, the Bishop of Stepney told the BBC.

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While the MP for Bethnal Green and Stepney is not resigning as a minister, she said she was relinquishing her building safety brief because "perception matters".

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Hope Rowe, 32, of Piazza Walk, Whitechapel, is accused of killing a woman who was stabbed in a foyer of a block of flats in Duckett Street, Stepney Green, in the early hours of Sunday.

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Grateful for everything he has built, having grown up in a council house in Stepney Green, east London, with not very much, Clark says he would give it all up not to have put his mother, Linda, through the trauma of that difficult time.

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