stair
noun/ster/
Слово англійською: stair
Переклад stair українською: сходи
Детальний опис
- stairs[plural] a set of steps built between two floors inside a building
- We had to carry the piano up three flights of stairs.
- He climbed the stairs to his bedroom.
- up/down the stairs The children ran up the stairs.
- on the stairs He remembered passing her on the stairs.
- at the bottom/top of the stairs
- [countable] one of the steps in a set of stairs
- How many stairs are there up to the second floor?
- (literary) (also staircase)[singular] a set of stairs inside a building including the banisters (= posts and bars that are fixed at the side)
- The house had a panelled hall and a fine oak stair.
Word OriginOld English stǣger, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch steiger ‘scaffolding’, from a base meaning ‘climb’.
Idioms
below stairs
- (British English, old-fashioned) in the part of a house where the servants lived in the past