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fire escapes

fire escapes is the plural of fire escape.

Meaning of fire escape

Noun

fire escape (plural fire escapes)

  1. Any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.
    • Eight ladies with Ugandan associations had ascended the fire escape and were making their way through his room.1975, Private Eye, numbers 340–366, page 198
  2. The entire escape route viewed as a whole.
  3. (historical) Any apparatus designed to allow people to escape a burning building, such as a canvas tube for sliding down.

Questions about fire escapes

What is fire escapes the plural of?
Fire escapes is the plural of fire escape.

Words near fire escapes in the dictionary

  1. fire engine
  2. fire engine red
  3. fire engine reds
  4. fire engines
  5. fire escape
  6. fire escapes
  7. fire exit
  8. fire exits
  9. fire extinguisher
  10. fire extinguishers
  11. fire fan

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