stairway
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- noun
- /ˈstɛrˌweɪ/
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escalera
- Descend the stairway and turn right.
- stairway leads to
- ladder or stairway
- several stairways
I just need to get to that stairway and get to the rail, get downstairs.
- I just need to get to that stairway and get to the rail, get downstairs.
- I remember I went to this one guy's house, Rory Sheen's house, and the stairway, like, split.
- This pyramid at Chichenitsa, it's northern stairway.
- So, and we have stairs that go like, there's like a small stairway that goes down to the front door and a small one that goes up to the second level.
- So I went from top of the stairway.
- It's called expressed Eskellier, Eskellier stairway.
- And that elevator there and they're putting a stairway, they're putting a stairway there down down into right into the brown boxing.
Examples
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The emergency exit is located at the end of the stairway, marked with a bright green sign.
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As the crewmen left, the captain climbed up the stairway to the pilothouse.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Lee had not taken two steps toward the stairway before Jones returned to his writing."
Fiction book (1992) -
And so you open this door and it's a stairway and it's pitch dark.
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When I reached the sixth floor and the stairway ended, there was quiet.
Fiction book (1991) -
There's a stairway there that takes you up to our apartment.
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Howard, a marine corporal, is waiting by the stairway as the passengers begin to get off.
Fiction book (1992) -
A few minutes later, Roberto reappeared at the bottom of the stairway and waved us down.
Fiction book (1991) -
Tall bamboo bushes grow along the small, steep, stone stairway, leaves rustling in the cool breeze.
Academic text (2006) -
The exterior has been remodeled, but the vaulted rooms and long stairways inside are Roman originals.
Synonyms
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A set of steps inside a building that people use to move between floors
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A tall space inside a building where people walk up and down between floors
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A set of steps between one floor and the next
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A moving staircase that carries people between floors
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A set of steps between two floors of a building
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A set of steps that people use to go between floors
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A set of stairs between two floors
A set of stairs outside a building
A stairway with moving steps that carries people between floors
A set of steps that move to carry people between floors
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Etymology
Stairway is made of stair, meaning 'step', and way, meaning 'path'. So a stairway is literally a 'path of steps' that takes you between floors.