Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "stairs" can be used as noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

apartment building car cellar garage gym hotel house michigan staircase two story building

Capable Of

creak seat many people step up

Causes Desire

climb

Derived Terms

I'll go to the foot of my stairs I'll go to the foot of our stairs I'll go to the foot of the stairs Penrose stairs above stairs above-stairs back stairs below stairs cyclopean stairs disappearing stairs emergency stairs fire stairs pair of stairs riot stairs trap stairs witches' stairs

Derived From

stair

Inflected/Variant Forms

stair

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

staircase stairway

Type Of (IsA)

inanimate object sets of steps stairway

Receives Action

climbed

Related Terms

floor step

Synonym Network

stairway

Used For

climb climb to another floor climb up climbing combination of steps exersice falling down go to second floor go up or down stories go upstairs or downstairs gradual stepping between altitudes move between floors moving between floors in house passage between floors sitting walking down walking up

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