Crossword clues for stairway
stairway
- Fliers, collectively
- Elevator alternative
- Emergency route, maybe
- A way of access consisting of a set of steps
- One in prison heard to think about steps
- Flight set to leave East taking appropriate route?
- Flight route on a flight route
- Paul, for example, assuming duct is a means of egress
- Take flight here, having broken a wrist? Yes
- Escalator alternative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stairway \Stair"way`\ (-w[=a]`), n.
A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. ``A rude and narrow
stairway.''
--Moore.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Stairway was an English new-age band in the late 1980s.
Stairway can refer to the following:
- A stairway, i.e. stairs
- Stairway (band), a 1977-1980 British band formed by former members of the band Renaissance
- Stairways (album), 1997 album by Nick Gilder
- Stairway to Heaven, a song by Led Zeppelin, commonly referred to simply as "Stairway"
Usage examples of "stairway".
This stairway forked at the top, a small flight leading to the door of an entrance into the cave dwelling, while two or three steps branched outward to a ledge skirting the stone balustrade of the balcony.
The bardling followed Am through a maze of corridors, across the rush-strewn stretch of the Great Hall, and up a winding stairway, stopping before a closed door.
Scarcely had his tiny flier come to rest upon the broad landing-deck of the flagship ere he was bounding up the stairway to the deck where we stood.
With her keys digging into her palm, Bree trudged up the concrete stairway to her tiny second floor apartment, each step more leaden than the last.
She had been a soldier in uniform on leave, and she was killed on the stairway in the Vdnkh Metro Station.
Prettiman still bearing the brandy, Milord bore the girl up the stairway and along the corridor to a small room at the back of the house.
And to-morrow Milt Warden would also still be seeing the same triumphant face he had seen hanging on the stairway wall the time he hurt his hand.
At the top of the stairway, just behind the door that opened out onto the roof, Morrell was true to his word.
With the patriarch at their side, Krispos and Dara walked down the aisle by which they had approached the altar, through the narthex, and out onto the top of the stairway.
Nowhere did he see a cross or crucifix, but at the far end of the narthex, beneath a stairway that probably led to the sanctuary balcony, a smaller replica of the same star that adorned the steeple shone with a dim light the color of a hazy Autumn moon.
So I closed the door of the gun-room on the great patroon and walked to the foot of the stairway.
While returning to the stairway there was that closed-in sensation from the three-color photomurals on the walls which, for a man with one eye, had a reality as from life.
The ruins were silent and overgrown with grass and even some pinyon pines, yet they were substantial and still impressive with their stairways, round ceremonial pits, and sturdy rock walls.
Food had to be sent through the Populist lines in baskets, or drawn up to the windows of the chamber while the Populist mob sat on the main stairway within.
I strode on toward the stairway so fast that when I asked a question Master Pory, at my side, was too out of breath to answer it.