flight of stairs
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1.6
- noun
- /flaɪt əv stɛrz/
- I turn on the hall light and descend the flight of stairs; my feet sink in the carpet.
- climb a flight of stairs
- walk up a flight of stairs
- fall down a flight of stairs
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Watch on YouTubeYeah, that's that's I gotta go up one flight of stairs and I'm like, I'm doing it.
- Yeah, that's that's I gotta go up one flight of stairs and I'm like, I'm doing it.
- So we get up, keep going, go down a flight of stairs.
- It's also not pleasant to get out of breath as you walk up a flight of stairs, right?
- We're told that he watched secretly one day as Antoninus helped his elderly stepfather up a flight of stairs.
- Yeah, you look like a Sherpa up three flights of stairs And and fucking can't.
- Follow down a fucking flight of stairs and die or otherwise.
- Weeks later, Mum fell down those very flight of stairs.
- I would put this in my shoulder and, like, go through like, a flight of stairs and the boat would be moving.
Examples
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The poor old guy climbed a flight of stairs like a man reeling from gunshot wounds.
Fiction book (1990) -
Down the first flight of stairs at the metro, across the landing, another hour, then on to the second flight of stairs.
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I had come up a flight of stairs into the apartment and let myself in.
Fiction book (1992) -
At last, they descended a short flight of stairs and reached a small room below.
Fiction book (1992) -
The two of them walked down the two flights of stairs to the street.
Fiction book (1996) -
A narrow foyer with a flight of stairs led to his suite.
Fiction book (1992) -
There was a short, narrow flight of stairs slanting away toward the back of the sanctuary.
Fiction book (1992) -
I followed her down the two flights of stairs, rushing past a few surprised-looking servants.
Fiction book (1993) -
Sam rushes madly down a flight of stairs into a subway station.
Fiction book (1990) -
The girls went down the second flight of stairs and turned into the kitchen.
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
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2.8
A set of steps between one floor and the next
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1.0
A set of steps that people use to go between floors in a building
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3.0
A set of stairs between two floors
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly composed from the constituents: 'flight' (a series of steps) + 'of' + 'stairs' yields a set of stairs between two landings. This is a regular noun-of-noun compositional pattern (with clear cross-linguistic equivalents), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent senses will understand it.
Etymology
Flight of stairs uses flight in the old sense of a short journey, like a 'flight' of birds, and the stairs make that short route up or down between floors. So, flight of stairs means 'a set of stairs between one floor and the next'.