: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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This huge three-bedroom penthouse has an open layout, architectural curves and angles, stone floors, art tiling, art nouveau–style cutout door, double-sided gas fireplace, floor-to-ceiling windows with city views, chef's kitchen with cooktop island, and stairway access to a private garden.
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The Week Staff, theweek, 19 Nov. 2024
The city, built across various elevations and connected by funiculars, elevators, and steep stairways, cascades down the surrounding hills into the harbor.
—Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2024
There’s also a street-side three-car garage with a vestibule where an elevator and stairway travel to the house and entry courtyard below.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2024
The video showed the koala checking out an elevator before opting to descend a stairway.
—NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
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The Week Staff, theweek, 19 Nov. 2024
The city, built across various elevations and connected by funiculars, elevators, and steep stairways, cascades down the surrounding hills into the harbor.
—Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2024
There’s also a street-side three-car garage with a vestibule where an elevator and stairway travel to the house and entry courtyard below.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2024
The video showed the koala checking out an elevator before opting to descend a stairway.
—NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Stairway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairway. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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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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