1 (stairs) [pl.] a set of steps built between two floors inside a building:
We had to carry the piano up three flights of stairs. * The children ran up / down the stairs. * at the bottom / top of the stairs * He remembered passing her on the stairs.
seealsoDOWNSTAIRS, UPSTAIRS
2 [C] one of the steps in a set of stairs:
How many stairs are there up to the second floor?
3 [sing.] (literary) = STAIRCASE:
The house had a panelled hall and a fine oak stair.
stair adjective [onlybeforenoun]:
the stair carpet
IDIOMS
below stairs (old-fashioned, BrE) in the part of a house where the servants lived in the past
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