Definitions for ladder

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ladder lad·der

Spelling: [lad-er]

IPA: /ˈlæd ər/

Ladder is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in ladder (addelr).

Definitions for ladder

noun

1. a structure of wood, metal, or rope, commonly consisting of two sidepieces between which a series of bars or rungs are set at suitable distances, forming a means of climbing up or down.
2. something resembling this.
3. a means of rising, as to eminence:
4. a graded series of stages or levels in status; a hierarchical order of position or rank:
5. Nautical. companionway (def 1).
6. Chiefly British. a run in a stocking.

verb (used with object)

1. to climb or mount by means of a ladder:
2. to furnish with a ladder:
3. Chiefly British. to cause a run in (a stocking).

verb (used without object)

1. Chiefly British. to get a run, as in a stocking.
2. to gain in popularity or importance:

Origin of ladder

before 1000; Middle English laddre, Old English hlǣder; cognate with German Leiter, Dutch leer (also ladder Gothic hleithra tent; orig., something that slopes. See lean

Examples for ladder

I remember climbing the ladder, and then trying to stand up there because I thought it was solid.

Then, a sharp-eyed woman pointed out a ladder leaning against a tree on the side of the pond.

Only—you know the rungs of that ladder ain't fit to be walked on, grandad!

I could easily get over it myself, but for Kitty we ought to have a ladder.

I threw all the food on the floor and I had a friend of mine get up on a ladder and photograph me lying in the middle of it.

Then he shrugged his shoulders and went slowly up the ladder.

We never stopped for clothes, but waltzed up the ladder just so.

I can drop down, as you said, and get the ladder over to you.'

Then when we arrive at his flat in Shepherd's Bush following the escape, perhaps there ought to be remnants of the ladder.

Still, not everyone was as tight lipped about poverty on the lower rungs of ladder as Obama was.