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stairway

UK/ˈstɛəweɪ/

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British/ˈstɛːwɛj/

stairway noun: a set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down.

stairway: a set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down
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Noun

stairway (plural stairways)

  1. A set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down.
    • Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    staircase, stairs

stairway meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam and Odia

stairway in Bengali

সিঁড়ি, যাতায়াতের পথ

stairway in Telugu

మెట్ల మార్గం, మెట్ల దారి

stairway in Malayalam

സ്റ്റെയർവേ, സ്റ്റെയർ വേ

stairway in Odia

ପାହାଚପଥ
More languagesFewer languages
stairway in Vietnamese
lan can

Examples of stairway in a sentence

  • A smokeproof stairway can help in the event of a fire.
  • His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
  • "My heavens! That girl'll drive me crazy, sure!" Arline hurried to the door. "Don't take the roof off'n the house," she cried querulously down the stairway. "I'm comin'."

All 13 example sentences with stairway

Synonyms of stairway

Forms of stairway

pluralstairways

Plural of stairway: stairways

Origin of stairway

stair + way

Words formed from stairway

Words that rhyme with stairway

Questions about stairway

What does stairway mean?
Stairway means a set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down.
What is stairway in Bengali?
Stairway in Bengali is সিঁড়ি, যাতায়াতের পথ. See Stairway meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is stairway?
Stairway is a noun.
How do you pronounce stairway?
Stairway is pronounced /ˈstɛəweɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of stairway?
The plural of stairway is stairways.

Words near stairway in the dictionary

  1. stairsteps
  2. stairtower
  3. stairtowers
  4. stairward
  5. stairwards
  6. stairway
  7. stairways
  8. stairwell
  9. stairwelled
  10. stairwells
  11. stairwise

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stairway (page history and authors); stairway (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stairway (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stairway (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stairway (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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