Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
STAIRS
stairs, steps
(noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
stairs
plural of stair
Noun
stairs pl (plural only)
A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
Synonyms
• (contiguous set of steps): stairway, staircase
Anagrams
• Sartis, arists, sistra, sitars, tisars
Proper noun
Stairs
plural of Stair
Anagrams
• Sartis, arists, sistra, sitars, tisars
Source: Wiktionary
STAIR
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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