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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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