stairwell
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈstɛrˌwɛl/
:
hueco de la escalera
- The stairwell was well-lit, making it easy to see the steps as I descended.
- crane inside a stairwell
And Kate found me passed out in a stairwell, like on the landing of a stairwell.
- And Kate found me passed out in a stairwell, like on the landing of a stairwell.
- Why did he just come out of that stairwell and just he run at them two?
- The first responders, those guys, if you see the pictures from the stairwells, they didn't know.
- And like I remember there was a stairwell and like the stairwell went up and then it cut back.
- And Chris turned around and he went in the stairwell and he went up and he never came back.
- And then, as if it is the most natural thing in the world to do, I walk toward the stairwell and give the world my answer.
- And so he didn't photograph the stairwell, which turns out to be another crucial issue later on.
- When she came out and did with the house check, mind I, I had a, a stairwell that went down to my basement.
- And we go up the up the exterior stairwell to the to the house and we knock on the door.
- But at that point I had went around to the backside of it where I went up that stairwell and this whole wing of the hotel wasn't even on.
- And then on the way down the stairwell, I said, I said, do you ever stop and look at these?
- Remember that in the old apartment building and the, you know, they dropped the animal through the stairwell.
- And I think such a great point was I think the old Jason Redman, young and mature Jason Redman, when he said, hey man, we got to take that stairwell.
Examples
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There was grillwork at each landing of the stairwell to catch "divers," prisoners trying to escape.
Fiction book (1992) -
There are more hatchways and stairwells on the other side of this wall.
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How many steps are in the stairwell leading from the second floor to the first floor?
Academic text (2001) -
Doors open and close throughout the stairwell, but the traffic is light.
Fiction book (1993) -
Now this is the stairwell down to the main entrance that used to only go one way, but now goes two ways.
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I'm standing in the stairwell.
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In the far corner, a cased stairwell leads to the rental rooms on the second floor.
Fiction book (1991) -
"Great heat rose up the stairwell, as if in a huge, stepped chimney."
Fiction book (1990) -
We see a descending steel staircase and stairwell door marked "Floor 40."
Fiction book (1991) -
Officers, there's a man in the stairwell waving a gun and screaming.
Fiction book (1993)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stairwell joins stair ('steps') and well ('a deep shaft or opening'), so picture a 'well' full of steps going up and down. That's why a stairwell is the vertical space in a building that surrounds a staircase.