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ladders
English
Noun
ladders
- plural of ladder
Noun
ladders pl (plural only)
- A pair of ladders
Verb
ladders
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ladder
Anagrams
- Aldreds, Saddler, raddles, saddler
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
ladders
- Plural form of ladder
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stair
English
Etymology
From Middle English steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from Old English st??er (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyg?- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”). Cognate with Dutch steiger (“a stair, step, wharf, pier, scaffolding”), Middle Low German steiger, steir (“scaffolding”), German Low German Steiger (“a scaffold; trestle”). Related to Old English ?st??an (“to ascend, go up, embark”), Old English st??an (“to go, move, reach; ascend, mount, go up, spring up, rise; scale”), German Stiege (“a flight of stairs”). More at sty.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /st???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: stare
Noun
stair (plural stairs)
- A single step in a staircase.
- Synonym: step
- A series of steps; a staircase.
Synonyms
- (Cockney rhyming slang) apples and pears
Usage notes
- Stairs and stair are used to refer to a single staircase, mostly interchangeably in the UK.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- ladder
- landing
Anagrams
- ISTAR, Ritsa, Sarti, airts, arist, astir, sitar, stria, tarsi, tiars, tisar
Irish
Etymology
From Latin historia. Doublet of stór.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [s?t??a??]
Noun
stair f (genitive singular staire, nominative plural startha)
- history
- account, story
- (literary) repute, fame
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- "stair" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “stair” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “stair” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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