stair

Universal Words noun 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