stairs

See also: Stairs

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛəz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛɹz/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /steːz/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /stiəz/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /steəz/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /steɹz/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /stɜː(ɹ)z/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
• Homophones: stares; steers (cheer–chair merger); stirs (fair–fur merger)

Noun

stairs

1. plural of stair

Noun

stairs pl (plural only)

1. A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.

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

   • 1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools‎^[1], volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:

     At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

Synonyms

• (contiguous set of steps): stairway, staircase

Derived terms

• abovestairs
• above stairs
• above-stairs
• back stairs
• backstairs
• belowstairs
• below stairs
• cyclopean stairs
• disappearing stairs
• emergency stairs
• fire stairs
• I'll go to the foot of my stairs
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs, I'll go to the foot of the stairs
• pair of stairs
• Penrose stairs
• riot stairs
• trap stairs
• understairs
• witches' stairs

Translations

contiguous set of steps

Afrikaans: trap (af) Aklanon: hakdan Albanian: shkallë (sq) f Arabic: سَلَالِم m pl (salālim) Armenian: սանդուղք (hy) (sanduġkʻ), աստիճաններ pl (astičanner) Aromanian: scarã f Azerbaijani: pilləkan Bashkir: баҫҡыс (baśqıs) Belarusian: ле́свіца f (ljésvica), схо́ды pl (sxódy), усхо́ды pl (usxódy) / ўсхо́ды pl (wsxódy) Bengali: সোপান (bn) (śōpan), সিঁড়ি (bn) (śĩṛi) Bulgarian: стъ́лба (bg) f (stắlba) Burmese: လှေကား (my) (hleka:) Catalan: escala (ca) f Cebuano: hagdan Cherokee: ᎠᎩᏠᏒᏍᏗᎢ (agitlosvsdii) Chinese: Cantonese: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (lau4 tai1) Eastern Min: 踏斗 (dăk-dāu), 樓梯 / 楼梯 (làu-*tăi) Gan: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (leu4 ti) Hakka: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (lèu-thôi) Hokkien: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (zh-min-nan) (lâu-thui) Jin: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (lou1 ti1) Mandarin: 樓梯 / 楼梯 (zh) (lóutī) Northern Min: 樓階 / 楼阶 (lê-gó) Wu: 胡梯, 樓梯 / 楼梯 Chukchi: тыттатъёлгын (tyttatʺjolgyn) Czech: schodiště (cs) n, schody pl Danish: trappe (da) c Dutch: trap (nl) m Egyptian: (rwd) Esperanto: ŝtuparo Estonian: trepp (et) Finnish: portaat (fi) French: escalier (fr) m Friulian: scjale f, sčhale f Galician: escaleira (gl) f, escada (gl) f, esqueira (gl) f Georgian: კიბეები (ḳibeebi), საფეხურები (sapexurebi) German: Treppe (de) f, (Austria) Stiege (de) f Alemannic German: Schtäge f Greek: σκάλα (el) f (skála) Ancient Greek: ἀναβαθμοί m pl (anabathmoí) Haitian Creole: eskalye Hanunoo: agdan Hebrew: גֶרֶם מַדרֵגוֹת m (gerem madregot) Hiligaynon: hagdan Hindi: सीढ़ी (hi) f (sīṛhī), सोपान (hi) m (sopān) Hmong: White Hmong: ntaiv Hungarian: lépcső (hu) Icelandic: stigi (is) m Ido: eskalero (io) Ilocano: agdan Indonesian: tangga (id) Ingrian: traput Irish: staighre (ga) f Italian: scala (it) f Japanese: 階段 (ja) (かいだん, kaidan) Kaitag: мичче́р (miččér) Kapampangan: eran, sangat Kazakh: саты (satı) Khmer: កាំជណ្ដើរ (kam cŭəndaə), ជណ្ដើរ (km) (cŭəndaə) Konkani: ಮೆಟ್ಟಿಲು (meṭṭilu) Korean: 계단(階段) (ko) (gyedan) Kyrgyz: саты (satı) Lao: ບັນໄດ (ban dai) Latin: scālae f pl Latvian: kāpnes (lv) f pl Lithuanian: laiptinė f Macedonian: ска́ли pl (skáli) Malay: tangga (ms) Maltese: tat-turġien, taraġ m Mòcheno: stiag f Mongolian: Cyrillic: шат (mn) (šat) Mongolian script: ᠱᠠᠲᠤ (šatu) Norwegian: Bokmål: trapp (no) m or f Nynorsk: trapp (nn) f Occitan: escalièrs (oc) m pl Ojibwe: akwaandawaagan Pangasinan: takayan Pashto: اندرپايه f (anarpāyá), ځينه f (źiná), څپېڅلۍ f (capécley) Persian: Dari: زِینَه (zīna) Iranian Persian: پِلِّکان (pellekân) Polish: schody (pl) pl Portuguese: escada (pt) Romanian: scară (ro) f Russian: ле́стница (ru) f (léstnica), ступе́ньки (ru) f pl (stupénʹki) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: степѐнице f pl, степеник m, сте̏пенӣште n, сту̏бӣште n Latin: stepènice (sh) f pl, stepenik (sh) m, stȅpenīšte (sh) n, stȕbīšte (sh) n Slovak: schody pl, schodisko n Slovene: stopnišče (sl) n Spanish: escalera (es) f, gradas (es) f pl, escalinata (es) f Swahili: ngazi (sw) Swedish: trappa (sv) c Tagalog: hagdan (tl), hagdanan (tl), baitang Tajik: зинапоя (zinapoya), нардбон (nardbon) Tatar: баскыч (tt) (basqıç) Thai: บันได (th) (ban-dai) Tibetan: སྐས་འཛེགས (skas 'dzegs) Turkish: basamak (tr), merdiven (tr) Turkmen: merdiwan Ukrainian: схо́ди (uk) pl (sxódy) Urdu: سِیڑْھی f (sīṛhī) Uyghur: پەلەمپەي (pelempey) Uzbek: narvon (uz), zinapoya (uz) Vietnamese: cầu thang (vi) Welsh: grisiau (cy) f Yiddish: טרעפּ f (trep)

Anagrams

• Sartis, Sitars, arists, sistra, sitars, tisars