stair Definition
stair (ster)
noun
- a flight of steps; stairway
- a single step, esp. one of a series forming a stairway
Etymology: ME steire < OE stæger < base of stigan, to climb: see stile
stair Usage Examples
Converse of object
- descend: A newly wed couple emerges, descends some stairs.
- climb: They climbed the stairs which laid to a landing with four doors.
- ascend: Visitors now ascend the stairs to the first floor of the palace.
- tread: Open tread stairs lead up to a large main bedroom and additional TV room.
Preposition: with
handrail: Flights of stairs with handrails lead to the upper floors, alternatively a lift is situated by the entrance via the automatic doors.
Adjective modifier
- +1: The main entrance is +3, +1 stairs through a set of very heavy double doors to the Porters ' Lodge.
- +3: The main entrance is +3, +1 stairs through a set of very heavy double doors to the Porters ' Lodge.
- +2: The main entrance off High Street is through tall and heavy wooden doors ( +4, +2 stairs, no handrails ).
- rickety: Eventually we were led up some rickety stairs to a portakabin aloft the studio proper.
- +4: The main entrance off High Street is through tall and heavy wooden doors ( +4, +2 stairs, no handrails ).
- steep: Teeth brushed, Shoes on, Down steep bus stairs.
Modifies a noun
- turret: Entrance to stair turret set in thickness of west wall.
- cupboard: White wood grain door to the under stair storage cupboard.
- lift: We also have a stair lift to bedrooms on the first floors.
Noun used with modifier
- rood: The rood loft stairs curve sweetly behind the stepped pulpit.
- turnpike: Of these turnpike stairs there were, in the recollection of the author, some in High Street and Church Street.
- spiral: He led them down a spiral stair to an area of branching passage ways where a young, slender elf was waiting.
- roodloft: Hakewill's work awaits, but the surviving roodloft stair in the window is nice.
- newel: North wall: halfway up the second stage is small slit window to light newel stair in northeast angle of tower.
- winder: The abutting winder stair is, therefore, also likely to have been an insertion.
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