: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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For Rose, that was being back aboard the Titanic, welcomed by Jack with an outstretched hand, the stairways and balcony lined with the passengers of that fateful voyage looking on with love, smiles and a hearty round of applause.
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David Petitti, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
The adjustable telescoping design allows this five-in-one Werner ladder to be used in five different positions: twin stepladder, stairway stepladder, extension ladder, wall ladder and two scaffold bases.
—Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2025
This was where the story, or at least my story, ended: atop a stairway to an empty platform where an invisible train had already passed.
—Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
An open stairway to the second floor is detailed as are the walls, which feature shadow boxing that extends up the stairway to the second floor landing and hall.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2025
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David Petitti, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
The adjustable telescoping design allows this five-in-one Werner ladder to be used in five different positions: twin stepladder, stairway stepladder, extension ladder, wall ladder and two scaffold bases.
—Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2025
This was where the story, or at least my story, ended: atop a stairway to an empty platform where an invisible train had already passed.
—Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
An open stairway to the second floor is detailed as are the walls, which feature shadow boxing that extends up the stairway to the second floor landing and hall.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2025
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“Stairway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairway. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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stairway
noun
stair·way
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: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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