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stairs

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈstɛəz//
  • United States//ˈstɛɹz//
  • Australia//steːz//
  • New Zealand//steəz//
  • //stiəz//

A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of stairplural of stair

noun

  1. 1

    A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.

    There're two cats at the top of the stairs.

    We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).