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