stair

[ stair ]

/ stɛər /

noun

one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.

stairs, such steps collectively, especially as forming a flight or a series of flights: I was so excited I ran all the way up the stairs.

a series or flight of steps; stairway: a winding stair.

Origin of stair

before 1000; Middle English stey(e)r, Old English stǣger; cognate with Dutch, Low German steiger landing; akin to sty¹

OTHER WORDS FROM stair

stair·less, adjective stair·like, adjective

Words nearby stair

stainer, staines, staining, stainless, stainless steel, stair, stair rod, staircase, staircase phenomenon, stairhead, stairlift

Example sentences from the Web for stairs

And thus I end up at the bottom of the stairs, about one month after my injury and two months after my wedding.

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Until then, we will hike the stairs together, one carpeted step at a time.

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The party sequence in Notorious begins with a wide shot from high above the top of the stairs, all glittering expanse below.

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Two police assigned to the apartment on a detail were doing a “vertical patrol” up the stairs when the door opened.

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“I thought about throwing myself down a flight of stairs or have my eldest daughter pounce on top of me,” she said.

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We ascended a very darksome flight of stairs, and a door was opened by a strange little man.

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John Lawson did not say another word; he turned away and slowly descended the stairs, and walked out of the house.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. |Various
I would have escaped my uncle, but he waylaid me in the dark at the foot of the stairs.

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She slipped past him out of the door, and he heard her light and rapid footfall as she sped up the stairs.

Throckmorton |Molly Elliot Seawell
Her father released her, took out his pocket handkerchief, and sat down on the stairs with his head against the wall.

Bleak House |Charles Dickens

British Dictionary definitions for stairs (1 of 2)

stairs

/ (stɛəz) /

pl n

a flight of steps leading from one storey or level to another, esp indoors

below stairs British in the servants' quarters; in domestic service

British Dictionary definitions for stairs (2 of 2)

stair

/ (stɛə) /

noun

one of a flight of stairs

a series of steps a narrow stair

Word Origin for stair

Old English stæger; related to stīg narrow path, stīgan to ascend, descend, Old Norse steigurligr upright, Middle Dutch steiger ladder

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