Meanings
plural stairways
- A set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down.
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Origin
Translations
Basque eskailera
- eskaileraset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Bulgarian стъ́лбище
- стъ́лбище (stắlbište)set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Chinese Mandarin 樓梯 /楼梯
- 樓梯 /楼梯 (lóutī)set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Czech schodiště
- schodištěset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Esperanto ŝtuparo
- ŝtuparoset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Estonian trepp
- treppset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Finnish portaat, rappuset
- portaatset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
- rappusetset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
French escalier
- escalierset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
German Stiege, Treppe
- Stiegeset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
- Treppeset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Greek κλιμακοστάσιο, σκάλα
- κλιμακοστάσιο (klimakostásio)set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
- σκάλα (skála)set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Hungarian lépcsősor, lépcső
- lépcsősorset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
- lépcsőset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Italian scalinata, gradinata
- scalinataset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
- gradinataset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Japanese 階段
- 階段 (kaidan)set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Portuguese escadaria
- escadariaset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Russian ле́стница, ле́стничный марш
- ле́стница (léstnica)set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
- ле́стничный марш (léstničnyj marš)set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Scottish Gaelic staidhre
- staidhreset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Slovak schody
- schodyset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Spanish escalera, gradas
- escaleraset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
- gradasset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
- escalinataset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Turkish merdiven
- merdivenset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Vietnamese lan can
- lan canset of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with stairway
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stairway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stairway
“stairway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stairway. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stairway,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stairway.
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