Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "staircase" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

apartment building building cellar house mansion multistory building school

Derived Terms

Penrose staircase devil's staircase everlasting staircase moving staircase spiral staircase staircase lock staircase wit staircasing

Derived From

case stair

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

way

Type Of (IsA)

series of risers and treads

Receives Action

made up of steps and risers

Related Terms

jaggies staircasing effect

Related Terms

curve discrete flight graph jaggies lock signal smooth stairway stairwell step

Synonym Network

stairway stairwell

Used For

access to different level accessing seats in theatre alternative to elevator alternative to escalator ascend to first floor ascending climb climbing climbing from one floor to another climbing out of pool emergency evacuation in highrise building exercise get to another floor getting to next level getting upstairs to second floor going downstairs going up and down stairs going upstairs keeping fit by climbing move from one floor to another moving between floors in building reaching stars taking when elevator broken walk up and down levels

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.