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Plural of staircase

regular plural

The plural of staircase is staircases.

Forms of staircase

Singularstaircase /ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/
Pluralstaircases
Countablecountable

Staircases in a sentence

  • Early signs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy may include pseudohypertrophy (enlargement of calf muscles), low endurance, and difficulties in standing unaided or inability to ascend staircases.From the entry pseudohypertrophy
  • Children often scrambled up the narrow staircases to play on the bleacherlike seats.2009 April 19, Caroline H. Dworin, “Emancipated From the Shadows”, in New York Times. From the entry bleacherlike
  • Spacious rooms were here piled one upon another connected by wide staircases.2008, Alan Burt Akers, Gangs of Antares: Dray Prescot 45. From the entry earthscraper
  • Up and down the corridors, the dozen staircases, through the whole Gormenghastian maze.2007, Antonia Quirke, Choking on Marlon Brando. From the entry Gormenghastian
  • Gulangyu island has a spectacular crows-nest lookout reached by winding stone staircases.1980 April 9 [1980 April 8], Jay Mathews, “Nationalist Islands Sound Siren Call to Mainland Chinese”, in The Washington Post, sourced from…. From the entry lookout

Meaning of staircase

  1. noun A flight of stairs; a stairway.
  2. noun A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
  3. noun A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.

Full definition of staircase

Questions about the plural of staircase

What is the plural of staircase?
The plural of staircase is staircases.
Is staircase countable?
Staircase is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: staircase (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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