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stairtower

stairtower noun: a tower with stairs on the inside.

Noun

stairtower (plural stairtowers)

  1. A tower with stairs on the inside.
    • The castle had four stairtowers when it was built, but only two remain.
    • We faced each other from opposite walls of the well-rubbed stairtower poised in an unblinking lovesickly gaze.2001, Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose: A Confession, page 114

Forms of stairtower

pluralstairtowers

Origin of stairtower

From stair + tower.

Questions about stairtower

What does stairtower mean?
Stairtower means a tower with stairs on the inside.
What part of speech is stairtower?
Stairtower is a noun.
What is the plural of stairtower?
The plural of stairtower is stairtowers.

Words near stairtower in the dictionary

  1. stairlike
  2. stairs
  3. stairstep
  4. stairstep moss
  5. stairsteps
  6. stairtower
  7. stairtowers
  8. stairward
  9. stairwards
  10. stairway
  11. stairways

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