Stair

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A series or flight of steps; a staircase. Often used in the plural.
  • n. One of a flight of steps.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A single step in a staircase.
  • n. A series of steps, a staircase.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.
  • n. A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A step; a degree.
  • n. One of a series of steps to mount by: as, a flight of stairs.
  • n. A flight or succession of flights of steps, arranged one behind and above the other in such a way as to afford passage from a lower to a higher level, or vice versa: as, a winding stair; the back stair: often used in the plural in the same sense.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    support   
    Hyponym
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flight    grece    staircase    stairway    winder    companionway    escalator   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adair    Aer    Altair    Astaire    Ayre    Baer    Bear    Blair    Cher    Clair   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    staircase    corridor    step    floor    doorway    hall    porch    tunnel    balcony    ladder