Stairs vs Stairwell - What's the difference?
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(label) A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
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As nouns the difference between stairs and stairwell
is that stairs is (label) a contiguous set of steps connecting two floors while stairwell is a shaft in a multi-story building enclosing a stairway or staircase.stairs
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(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}