flight
58
2.8
- noun
- /flaɪt/
- At last, they descended a short flight of stairs and reached a small room below.
- a flight of stairs
- walk up a flight
- climb a flight
Examples
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Her room was 2-B, up one flight and immediately next to the stairs.
Fiction book (1992) -
- It's only one flight.
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What if I fall down a flight of stairs or something?
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Should anything ever happen, you can always run down 24 flights very quickly.
Academic text (2007) -
One more flight of stairs won't kill you
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Inside a south entrance and up a flight of stairs, carpets cover former factory floors.
Academic text (2007) -
There was a short, narrow flight of stairs slanting away toward the back of the sanctuary.
Fiction book (1992) -
I turn on the hall light and descend the flight of stairs; my feet sink in the carpet.
Fiction book (1991) -
Three paces into this cramped entranceway, a narrow flight of stairs reared abruptly and steeply up.
Fiction book (1990) -
Be careful when you go down that flight of stairs; it's very steep.
Synonyms
713
1.0
A set of steps that people use to go between floors
213
1.0
A set of stairs outside a building
95
1.0
A set of steps inside a building that people use to move between floors
44
1.0
A set of steps that people use to go between floors in a building
41
1.6
A set of steps between two floors of a building
5
3.0
A set of stairs between two floors
1
3.1
A set of steps that move to carry people between floors
Idioms
Compounds
101
3.2
A person who looks after passengers on an airplane and keeps them safe and comfortable
10
3.4
A flight with a stop where you change planes to reach your final destination
- Specialized
6
3.5
A machine on the ground that copies the feeling of flying a plane for training
- Specialized
5
4.1
A computer system on a plane or drone that automatically keeps it steady and guides it
- Specialized
5
4.8
A crew member who checks and runs a plane's engines and systems during a trip
- Specialized
3
6.0
An area at an airport where planes are parked and worked on before flying
- Informal
1
8.6
A very frightening plane trip that makes people on board feel scared
- Specialized
1
7.2
A simple place where planes land without airport buildings for emergencies or military landings
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Flight of stairs likely uses the image of moving upward quickly like a fly motion, so a flight of steps is a set of stairs that takes you up from one floor to the next.