Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See staircase.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A staircase.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps
Examples
“Close to the main stairway is a mural, "The Tree of Friars", depicting branches spreading out from St. Dominic, founder of the Dominican order.”
A day in Oaxaca = Two thousand years, Part Two: Monte Alban and the Zimatlán Valley.
“While I was watching local live coverage between 12 and 1 pm, the scene showed the interior of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort hotel with a scattering of people seeming to be fleeing from something down a broad stairway from a mezzanine level to ground level.”
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“Once you are in stairway view, turn back to the view right before you get out from the mouse hole (this will be the small room with pink wall and blue floor and no stair) 22.”
“The 14 who survived were scattered inside the stairway from the lobby to just below the sixth floor.”
“Jonas hustled back into the stairway from a floor where he had been searching for a chair to carry Harris.”
“Since the stairway is so old, one can understand that it doesn't look quite the same now as when it was new.”
“At eleven he did not know that Paula had come up the secret stairway from the library and was standing behind the shelves of books listening.”
“As beds rise in height, a market is developing for what sleep lovers may call a stairway to heaven.”
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“What was left of the stairway was the twisted, mangled, debris-filled mess.”
“What was left of the stairway was the twisted, mangled debris-filled mess, but it was our little life ball.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stairway’.
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ways
As in routes, avenues & tracts. Omitting, e.g., halfway, anyway, sideways, folkway, Haddaway. (many of those are found thisways)
alleyway, byway, parkway, shaftway, hallway, skyway, runway, doorway, railway, thruway, archway, hatchway and 79 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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a way
an ode and see
how, manner, path, mode, course, fashion, jostle, wend, easement, hardment, passage, anywise and 95 more...
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Tunie: Helplessly Hoping
One of the most attractively alliterative, evanescently evocative and hauntingly melodic tunes ever written. By Stephen Stills.
Helplessly Hoping, Her Harlequin Hovers nearby...awaiting ...lost, linger, lady, loose, lying, love, cost, confusion, certain, something, see, stairway and 17 more...
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