: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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Their flowers, red, rose above the courtyard and the divan where the village elders met, over the ten balconies and the stairway windows.—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025 Without the Mountain View gate, the nearest entrance to North Beach is from a steep stairway that is not handicapped accessible from Ocean Street at Rue Des Chateaux.—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025 The pair also collaborated on an orange-and-gold dewdrop installation over the stairway and the glimmering waterfall sculpture in the three-story courtyard.—Christine Muhlke, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025 That includes features such as self-closing doors and noncombustible stairways.—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stairway
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