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Plural of stair

regular plural

The plural of stair is stairs.

Forms of stair

Singularstair /stɛɚ/
Pluralstairs /ˈstɛəz/
Countablecountable

Stairs in a sentence

  • She took up her post at the foot of the stairs.From the entry take up
  • I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.From the entry tumble
  • My aunt can't manage the stairs any more, so she's moving to a bungalow.From the entry bungalow
  • Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring.From the entry tiring
  • She came a cropper on the stairs and broke her leg.From the entry come a cropper

Meaning of stair

  1. noun A single step in a staircase.
  2. noun A series of steps; a staircase.

Full definition of stair

Questions about the plural of stair

What is the plural of stair?
The plural of stair is stairs.
Is stair countable?
Stair is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stair (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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