• Stairway

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    • Rhymes: -ɛə(r)weɪ

    Full definition of stairway

    Noun

    stairway

    (plural stairways)
    1. A set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably.
      The phrase "stairway to heaven" has a variety of cultural significances.
      • 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 5, Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,....

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