: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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The original measure required the next state building code to allow a single stairway as a means of egress in small residential buildings and passed as part of the 2024 bond package.
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Ct Mirror, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
Restrictions apply within 10 feet of any doorway, loading dock, stairway, or fire escape and within 50 feet of the centerline of any trail or sidewalk within city limits.
—Lynne Hermansen, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
No blood was visible in the stairway or the lobby.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
One of the units had a series of hexagonal mirrors ascending the stairway.
—Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026
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Ct Mirror, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
Restrictions apply within 10 feet of any doorway, loading dock, stairway, or fire escape and within 50 feet of the centerline of any trail or sidewalk within city limits.
—Lynne Hermansen, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
No blood was visible in the stairway or the lobby.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
One of the units had a series of hexagonal mirrors ascending the stairway.
—Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for stairway
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“Stairway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairway. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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stairway
noun
stair·way
-ˌwā 
: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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