Stair vs Staid - What's the difference?
stair | staid |
A single step in a staircase.
A series of steps, a staircase.
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, passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
Serious, organized, and professional; sober
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*:He wondered what had become of the boys who were his companions: they were nearly thirty now; some would be dead, but others were married and had children; they were soldiers and parsons, doctors, lawyers; they were staid men who were beginning to put youth behind them.
Always fixed in the same location; stationary