: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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Perhaps the wide stairway is to give workers and their equipment some elbow room.
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Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 10 Apr. 2026
The California Coastal Commission required a small homeowners association to install the concrete stairway about 2005 as condition of its approval of the residential construction.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
Shadow boxing on the foyer’s walls and stairway add visual appeal.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
The addition, which contains an atrium and a complex switchback stairway, seems to touch the older building at just one point.
—Fred A. Bernstein, Architectural Digest, 2 Apr. 2026
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Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 10 Apr. 2026
The California Coastal Commission required a small homeowners association to install the concrete stairway about 2005 as condition of its approval of the residential construction.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
Shadow boxing on the foyer’s walls and stairway add visual appeal.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
The addition, which contains an atrium and a complex switchback stairway, seems to touch the older building at just one point.
—Fred A. Bernstein, Architectural Digest, 2 Apr. 2026
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“Stairway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairway. Accessed 12 Apr. 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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