Wiktionary
alt. A pyramid composed of several stacked platforms or mastabas so that each face has steps. n. A pyramid composed of several stacked platforms or mastabas so that each face has steps.
Wikipedia
A step pyramid or stepped pyramid is an architectural structure that uses flat platforms, or steps, receding from the ground up, to achieve a completed shape similar to a geometric pyramid. Step pyramids are structures which characterized several cultures throughout history, in several locations throughout the world. These pyramids typically are large and made of several layers of stone. The term refers to pyramids of similar design that emerged separately from one another, as there are no firmly established connections between the different civilizations that built them.
Usage examples of "step pyramid".
Teppic dropped lightly on to the wide flat roof of a mastaba, jogged to its far end, cleared the gap on to an ornamental sphinx - not without a moment's worry, but this one seemed inert enough - and from there it was but the throw of a grapnel to one of the lower storeys of a step pyramid.
He stares at the ruby eye atop the 13-step pyramid hidden in the UN building, and he thinks of pentagons.
Even the magnificent step pyramid he and his friends had seen still standing in the jun.
Yet the brilliant Im-Hotep built the step pyramid of Sakkara for his king, who was called Zoser.
They included the step pyramid at Sakkarah, the Egyptian Museum, the mosque of Sultan Hassan, and the mosque and college of El Azhar, founded in the ninth century.
He remembered the step pyramid had not been far from an open space, which must have been the ant field.
As far as he knew the design survived on only one other sarcophagus, an alabaster beauty found by Zakaria Goneim in the unfinished step pyramid of Sekhem-khet.