stairs, steps
(noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps
Source: WordNet® 3.1
stairs
plural of stair
stairs pl (plural only)
A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
• (contiguous set of steps): stairway, staircase
• Sartis, arists, sistra, sitars, tisars
Stairs
plural of Stair
• Sartis, arists, sistra, sitars, tisars
Source: Wiktionary
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
2 May 2024
(verb) leave or give by will after one’s death; “My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry”; “My grandfather left me his entire estate”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
