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staircase English

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Meaning staircase meaning

What does staircase mean?

Definitions in simple English

staircase Noun

— A staircase is a set of steps between two different levels. She climbed the staircase to reach the upper floor of the house.

staircase

— noun (= stairway) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps

Synonyms staircase synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as staircase?

staircase English » English

stairs

stairway

ladder

steps

stair

flight of stairs

flight of steps

step

stairwell

stagewise

sea steps

scale

jagged image

flight

doorsteps

cornice

cascade

balcony

Topics staircase topics

What do people use staircase to talk about?

Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Floor, story

• What words refer to stairs and other ways of climbing to a higher level?
  stair step rung (of a ladder) staircase stairway stairwell stairs flight of stairs elevator lift escalator fire escape ladder banister handrail landing ramp

Examples staircase examples

How do I use staircase in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The toilet is behind the staircase.

So now he landed back in the same company, but this time not in the office chair, but rather upside down on the concrete staircase.

How many steps does this staircase have?

A spiral staircase leads onto the gallery of the church.

Tom and Mary kissed in the staircase.

Tom carefully climbed up the rickety staircase.

When I was a child, I used to like sliding down the staircase banister.

Movie subtitles

You know the main staircase in the opera?

From the air, the district known as the Casbah looks like a teeming anthill, a vast staircase where terraces descend stepwise to the sea.

Leading to the top. there is a staircase of over 1,000 steps. but there is an elevator included in the price of admission.

I was thinking about that dame upstairs, and the way she had looked at me and I wanted to see her again, close without that silly staircase between us.

So did I. He was right behind me on the staircase.

There's a tradesman's staircase.

This is the palace staircase.

She came down this long staircase.

Hide on the staircase.

It's this one at the top of the staircase.

This is the staircase.

He must have thought things because, at first,when meeting him in the staircase, I would smile to him.

And make Marie break her leg tomorrow in the staircase.

We go through the door to the staircase.

In the black dress, in front of the staircase.

There's the back staircase.

The Queen's staircase.

Suddenly, I noticed a very attractive girl coming down the staircase.

Isn't she a follies girl famous for coming down a staircase?

This girl comes down a staircase too?

Yes, by the other staircase.

Now, over here is the hall with a big winding staircase.

I was thinking about that dame upstairs, and the way she had looked at me. and I wanted to see her again, close. without that silly staircase between us.

So I got up and ran. and I was afraid of being seen and I started down the back staircase.

This is the staircase of the palace!

Or she'll be sick in bed again. especially after I throw her down the staircase.

He was lying at the foot of the staircase. His eyes were staring, mad.

Hid me.. the secret staircase..

One can take either staircase.

Look at that staircase.

It seems to be a rather drafty staircase.

Put them in soft beds, lay them on fur rugs, at the foot of a staircase but we could never throw them from a car like cigarette butts.

The end wall has been uncovered with the lancet window and remnants of the staircase tower.

Here are remnants of a winding staircase and a doorway leading to one floor.