Definitions for Escalator

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Escalator es·ca·la·tor

Spelling: [es-kuh-ley-ter]

IPA: /ˈɛs kəˌleɪ tər/

Escalator is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 743 anagrams from letters in Escalator (aacelorst).

Definitions for Escalator

noun

1. Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
2. a means of rising or descending, increasing or decreasing, etc., especially by stages:
3. escalator clause.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or included in an escalator clause:

Origin of Escalator

1895-1900, Americanism; formerly a trademark; perhaps escal(ade) + (elev)ator

Examples for Escalator

So I quickly made way down the escalator to the baggage claim and into the car pickup area.

Jacobs sent his models, with their beehive hairdos, down the escalator in pairs who were dressed in complimentary styles.

My escort tucked all eight copies under his arm, and we headed back to the escalator.

To get to this J.C. Penney, you have to take an escalator down, not up, like you were getting on the subway.

He was studying them so intently that he forgot his escalator was landing.

With no break in pace he veered into an opening beside the escalator.

He pulled Maida toward the head of an escalator a dozen feet away.

When the shooting started, he went charging up the escalator.

He cut to the right, running toward the escalator to the second floor.

So, we rode up an escalator—a very long escalator—and found the book.