stairwell
stairwell
Definition
stair·well (-wel′)
noun
a vertical shaft (in a building) containing a staircase
stairwell
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- block: They are working with the local Housing Office to address matters like drug dealing in the stairwells of blocks.
- building: The Museum hive The Museum maintains a small hive of honey bees located on the south west stairwell of the building.
Converse of object
- panel: Original features abound - a bread oven alcove, exposed A frames with pegs, wooden paneled stairwell and original floor tiles.
- enter: In reality - post conversion - the loft door was removed and natural light enters the stairwell from the loft area.
- include: Stairs ( with half landing ) from sitting room leading up to: - Galleried Landing 7ft 6in x 7ft ( including stairwell ).
- see: Follow it for about 20m, and then look to your right and you will see a stairwell.
- use: One person uses one stairwell and the other the opposite.
Adjective modifier
- communal: Communal stairwells, lighting and estate maintenance The Council will undertake a rigorous repairs regime of all its communal areas and estates.
- dark: The robots are swimming toward us down the dark stairwell.
- central: Beyond the deserted office rooms we were at a central stairwell, at the bottom of which was a two-storey statue of Algeroth.
- main: On the second floor, accessed from the main stairwell, is a large triple bedroom ideal for older children.
- open: The open stairwell would simply make that impossible in its open plan setup.
- west: Concrete repairs were also successfully completed to the internal and external parapets and to the east and west stairwells.
Modifies a noun
- door: Thereâs no reception area either - the stairwell door opens onto a single, open-plan office.
- area: Pass through the double doors into the stairwell area and then go straight ahead through another set of double doors.
- landing: Old furniture A photo of a 17th or 18th century carved chair found in a hotel stairwell landing in Northallerton, West Yorkshire.
- opening: Dormer windows and stairwell openings are formed by placing multiple trusses either side of the openings and framing the resulting space with loose timbers.
Noun used with modifier
- tenement: Believing she had wandered off into the tenement stairwell, Colleen went in search of the errant animal.
- entrance: A case in point is the feature lighting of the entrance stairwell at Lloyds Court in Newcastle.
- stone: Skinny gray cats weave in and around narrow alleyways, or snooze in steep stone stairwells.
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