: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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Firefighters braved a heavy gas odor, flames, collapsing walls and even a second explosion to rescue people trapped in stairways and elevator shafts and under rubble, authorities said.
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Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2025
Carlsbad has an agreement with the state that allows the city to maintain the sidewalks, stairways, landscaping and restrooms on the property to higher standards than the state requires for its parks.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
Assisi’s grid of narrow streets, vaulted alleys, and stone stairways largely follows the town’s Roman origins.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
Instead, as part of the national INA-Casa program, the architects Ludovico Quaroni and Mario Ridolfi created the Tiburtino neighborhood, a hilly maze of sloping streets, shaded stairways, and curving alleys.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Dec. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2025
Carlsbad has an agreement with the state that allows the city to maintain the sidewalks, stairways, landscaping and restrooms on the property to higher standards than the state requires for its parks.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
Assisi’s grid of narrow streets, vaulted alleys, and stone stairways largely follows the town’s Roman origins.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
Instead, as part of the national INA-Casa program, the architects Ludovico Quaroni and Mario Ridolfi created the Tiburtino neighborhood, a hilly maze of sloping streets, shaded stairways, and curving alleys.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Dec. 2025
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“Stairway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairway. Accessed 3 Jan. 2026.
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stairway
noun
stair·way
-ˌwā 
: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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