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FLIGHT OF STAIRS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: flights of stairs   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next

Synonyms:

flight; flight of stairs; flight of steps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("flight of stairs" is a kind of...):

staircase; stairway (a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps)

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 Context examples: 

At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with red baize; and through this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the doctor’s cabinet.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)