Definitions for ladders

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ladders lad·der

Spelling: [lad-er]

IPA: /ˈlæd ər/

Ladders is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in ladders (addelrs).

Definitions for ladders

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 ladders

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 ladders

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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