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stepladder

stepladder is the alternative form of step ladder.

Meaning of step ladder

Noun

step ladder (plural step ladders)

  1. A ladder with steps or treads instead of rungs that is hinged in the middle to form an inverted V, with stays to keep the two halves at a fixed angle.
  2. (slang, Australian rules football) The player over whom another player marks to take a spectacular mark.

Forms of stepladder

pluralstepladders

Questions about stepladder

What is stepladder the alternative form of?
Stepladder is the alternative form of step ladder.

Words near stepladder in the dictionary

  1. stepings
  2. Stepinski
  3. Stepinskis
  4. stepkid
  5. stepkids
  6. stepladder
  7. stepladders
  8. steple
  9. steplength
  10. steplengths
  11. steples

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stepladder (page history and authors); step ladder (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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