Staircase vs Stair - What's the difference?
staircase | stair |
A flight of stairs; a stairway.
A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase , she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.
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 …}}
Stair is a derived term of staircase.
As nouns the difference between staircase and stair
is that staircase is a flight of stairs; a stairway while stair is a single step in a staircase.staircase
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(en noun)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}