flight of stairs

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

ladder scala flight stair staircase stairway tumble-down escalator stepladder flight of steps

Antonyms

elevator conveyor winch forklift dumbwaiter escalator
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Hypernyms

staircase stairway

Examples

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. Jean Cocteau

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning. Connie Willis

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs. Francis Crick

Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs. Patricia Briggs

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it. Jeannette Walls

Close letter words and terms

flight of fancy flight of herons flight of imagination flight of steps flight paramedic flight pass