staircase
Syllables: stair·case/ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/
staircase noun: a flight of stairs; a stairway.
Noun
staircase (plural staircases)
- A flight of stairs; a stairway.
- I was on the staircase by the bell / Blinded by the black magician's spell2011, “13 Candles”, performed by Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
- A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp...1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III...
- When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.
Verb
staircase (third-person singular simple present staircases, present participle staircasing, simple past and past participle staircased)
- To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps.
- This leads to much smoother reconstructions in regions of moderate gradient and thus prevents staircasing.2006, Nikos Paragios, Yunmei Chen, Olivier D. Faugeras, editors, Handbook of Mathematical Models in Computer Vision, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26
- To increase one's share in a co-ownership.
- It is a good idea to make plans for staircasing when you first buy your shared ownership home.2018, Dave Cowan, Helen Carr, Alison Wallace, Ownership, Narrative, Things, Springer, →ISBN, page 139
staircase meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
staircase in Hindi
- stairway
- सीढ़ी sīṛhī, सोपान sopān
staircase in Tamil
- stairway
- மாடிப்படி māṭippaṭi
staircase in Marathi
- staircase, stairway
- जिना jinā
- staircase
- शिडी śiḍī
staircase in Urdu
- stairway
- سِیڑھی sīṛhī, زِینَہ zīna
More languagesFewer languages
- staircase in Bengali
- সোপান śōpan
- staircase in Malayalam
- കോവണിപ്പടിക്കെട്ട്, ഗോവണി
- staircase in Kannada
- ನಿಚ್ಚಣಿಕೆ, ಪಾವಟಿಗೆ, ಏ೦ಚಣಿ
- staircase in Gujarati
- દાદરો dādro, જીનો jīno, સોપાન sopān
- staircase in Assamese
- খটখটী khotkhoti
- staircase in Nepali
- भर्याङ bharyāṅ
- staircase in Pashto
- زينه zīna
- staircase in Tagalog
- hagdanan
- staircase in Arabic
- بَيْتُ الدَّرَج baytu d-daraj, دَرَج daraj, سُلَّم sullam
- staircase in Thai
- กระได grà-dai, บันได ban-dai
- staircase in Vietnamese
- cầu thang
- staircase in Myanmar
- လှေကား hleka:
Examples of staircase in a sentence
- The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
- See if you can blow the bubbles up the staircase.
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
Forms of staircase
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | staircases |
| alternative form (archaic) | stair-case |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | staircases |
| present participle | staircasing |
| past participle | staircased |
| past | staircased |
Origin of staircase
From stair + case.
Words formed from staircase
Phrases with staircase
Questions about staircase
- What does staircase mean?
- Staircase means a flight of stairs; a stairway.
- What is staircase in Hindi?
- Staircase in Hindi is सीढ़ी (sīṛhī), सोपान (sopān). See Staircase meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is staircase?
- Staircase can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce staircase?
- Staircase is pronounced /ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/ (US).
- What is the plural of staircase?
- The plural of staircase is staircases.
Words near staircase in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: staircase (page history and authors); जिना (Marathi) (page history and authors); staircase (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); staircase (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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