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stayre

stayre is the obsolete form of stair.

Meaning of stair

Noun

stair (plural stairs)

  1. A single step in a staircase.
    Synonyms:
    step
  2. A series of steps; a staircase.
    • Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish

See all 3 meanings of stair

Forms of stayre

pluralstayres

Questions about stayre

What is stayre the obsolete form of?
Stayre is the obsolete form of stair.

Words near stayre in the dictionary

  1. stayouts
  2. stayover
  3. stayovers
  4. staypak
  5. staypaks
  6. stayre
  7. stayres
  8. stays
  9. stays at home
  10. stays away
  11. stays back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stayre (page history and authors); stair (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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