English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: stair·case

Noun

1. a flight of stairs; a stairway
2. a connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell

Translations

• Dutch: trap
• Esperanto ŝtuparo
• Finnish: portaat, portaikko
• French: escalier
• Latin: scalaria (1)
• Slovak: schodisko
• Slovene: stopnišče
• Spanish: escalera

• A stairway.
• Accommodation around a quadrangle in Oxbridge colleges.
• Staircase (film), a 1969 film starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton as two aging homosexuals.
• The shape of a function, cf. staircase function.