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Building passageway
Answer for the clue "Building passageway ", 9 letters:
stairwell
Alternative clues for the word stairwell
Word definitions for stairwell in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A shaft in a multi-story building enclosing a stairway or staircase.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A narrow stairwell wound like a corkscrew into the dungeons of the castle. ▪ A position over a high stairwell would not be satisfactory. ▪ He can also slowly inch his way up the stairwell at a rate of 1 foot per round. ▪ In the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a vertical well around which there is a stairway
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1862, from stair + well (n.).
Usage examples of stairwell.
Cormac was able to slam it against a stairwell that was brightly aflicker with lurid flames.
He turned then and noticed the open door he obviously had, in his befuddlement, neglected to close, let alone lock, the private idiocies, discomfitures of these last few hours on public exhibit for hallway creeps dragging their fungoid flesh to and from the reeking stall opposite the stairwell, how acute his embarrassment had his faculties been intact, when would this life ever mend?
Byron scrambled up, assured his cards were safe in his shirt, and faced towards the far stairwell.
But with Aunt Elizabeth safely tucked away, she had tiptoed down to the front door and peered through the fisheye peephole that provided a good view of the vestibule from the elevator on the left to the stairwell doors opposite.
The flashover kills all four members of the crew outright, blowing out the fire doors and sending a tongue of flame leaping up the stairwell to the floor above.
As his men herded off the captives at spear-point, Arya saw Pinkeye emerge from the stairwell, blinking at the torchlight.
Rasche followed Schaefer to the stairwell, pistol gripped firmly in both hands.
The sickly-sweet scent of human and animal wastes clinging in the corners of the stairwells.
The door had been burst open, and as I entered and looked up the stairwell that led to the clocktower and carillon, I noted a diffuse and flickering greenish light descending from the highest level.
Even with the earplugs, Kim was initially bowled over by the cacophony of noise that exploded into the stairwell.
Other footsteps, those in stairwell, came up to the third floor and joined whoever gotten out of the elevator.
Simultaneously, via the stairwell, he heard noises from the lobby: footsteps, voices.
Talbot whistled nervously into his lantern and soon approached the stairwell at the far end of the vault, which promised a return to the warm gaslights and a shorter route to his home than the streets.
On many occasions he ran into people in the empty hallways or the empty stairwells, carrying sheafs of paper or videotapes from one bleak, empty office to another.
The cream rose, the value of their investments rose, and the single stairwell, serving as a flue, in a six-story building hard by Canal, all but round the corner from us, made the fire rise.