The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stair \Stair\ (st[^a]r), n. [OE. steir, steyer, AS. st[=ae]ger, from st[imac]gan to ascend, rise. [root]164. See Sty to ascend.]
One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.
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A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only. ``I a winding stair found.''
--Chaucer's Dream.Below stairs, in the basement or lower part of a house, where the servants are.
Flight of stairs, the stairs which make the whole ascent of a story.
Pair of stairs, a set or flight of stairs. -- pair, in this phrase, having its old meaning of a set. See Pair, n., 1.
Run of stairs (Arch.), a single set of stairs, or section of a stairway, from one platform to the next.
Stair rod, a rod, usually of metal, for holding a stair carpet to its place.
Up stairs. See Upstairs in the Vocabulary.
WordNet
n. a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next [syn: flight, flight of steps]
Usage examples of "flight of stairs".
Then they silently crossed the wall, entered another door, ran down another flight of stairs, and were outside the city walls.
Leaving the main chamber, Laurana led the Marshal up one flight of stairs and onto a balcony that overlooked the main chamber.
I jumped to it, found the mat where I had lashed it to the post, unrolled it, tapped the flight threads, and was up and flying over the railing just as a trapdoor opened above the long flight of stairs coming down to the deck.
Mole, did you hear that Jedidiah fell down a flight of stairs and broke his leg?