STAIR

step, stair

(noun) support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway; “he paused on the bottom step”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

stair (plural stairs)

A single step in a staircase.

A series of steps; a staircase.

Synonyms

• (Cockney rhyming slang) apples and pears

Usage notes

• Stairs and stair are used to refer to a single staircase, mostly interchangeably in the UK.

Anagrams

• ISTAR, Ritsa, Sarti, airts, arist, astir, sitar, stria, tarsi, tiars, tisar

Proper noun

Stair (plural Stairs)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stair is the 12328^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2522 individuals. Stair is most common among White (91.63%) individuals.

Anagrams

• ISTAR, Ritsa, Sarti, airts, arist, astir, sitar, stria, tarsi, tiars, tisar

Source: Wiktionary

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Stair, n. Etym: [OE. steir, steyer, AS. st, from to ascend, rise. sq. root164. See Sty to ascend.]

1. One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.

2. 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. "I a winding stair found." Chaucer's Dream. Below stairs, in the basement or lower part of a house, where the servants are.

– Flight of stairs, the stairs which make the whole ascent of a story.

– Pair of stairs, a set or flight of stairs.

– pair, in this phrase, having its old meaning of a set. See Pair, n., 1.

– Run of stars (Arch.), a single set of stairs, or section of a stairway, from one platform to the next.

– Stair rod, a rod, usually of metal, for holding a stair carpet to its place.

– Up stairs. See Upstairs in the Vocabulary.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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