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How to pronounce stairway in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms staircase
Type of way
Has types companionway, ghat, backstairs, moving staircase, moving stairway, ramp, stairs, steps, emergency exit, escalator, fire escape, flight, flight of stairs, flight of steps

Examples of stairway

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A stairway is being built to enable buyers to get into the dilapidated interior.
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Less sand would mean less abrasion, less wear, and an easier stairway to travel.
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Authorities said the blaze may have started in the stairway to the second floor.
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On the right, a short stairway leads to a whimsical lower-level recreation room.
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After clearing the mosque, they find a stairway leading down to a dark basement.
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They perch on the stairway, roost on the bookcase, snooze in the laundry basket.
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It's a fun walk from the driveway up a winding stone stairway to the front door.
From the washingtontimes.com
Five life-size statues of seated rulers were installed seated upon the stairway.
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At the end of the stairway is a gate which is 16 meters high and 27 meters wide.
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More examples
  • A way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps
  • Stairway, staircase, stairwell, flight of stairs or simply stairs are names for a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. ...
  • Stairway was an English New Age band in the late 1980s.
  • Stairways by Nick Gilder was released in 1997 on the Spinner Music Group Inc./Gilder Records labels.
  • A set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably
  • One or more flights of stairs, either exterior or interior, with the necessary landings and platforms connecting them, to form a continuous and uninterrupted passage from one level to another.
  • A large level that features many suspended stairways in the sky.
  • 1) one or more flights within a stairwell that ascend from one primary level of a building to another. 2) An individual flight. 3) An entire stairway along with its balustrade may simply be referred to as a stairway.
  • This term is often reserved for the entire stairwell and staircase in combination; though often it is used interchangeably with "stairs" and "staircase".