Definitions for stairway

stairway stair·way

Spelling: [stair-wey]
IPA: /ˈstɛərˌweɪ/

Stairway is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in stairway (aairstwy).

Definitions for stairway

noun

  1. a passageway from one level, as of a building, to another by a series of stairs; staircase.

Origin of stairway

First recorded in 1790-1800; stair + way1

Examples for stairway

She looked down the hall, up the stairway, and went on to the living room.

Bucca hung up the phone and started up the stairway with fellow fire marshal John Devery.

For more than a half-century before “stairway to Heaven,” recording artists had been doing this, usually with impunity.

"With your permission," he said negligently; and drew the girl aside to the angle of the stairway.

The stairway was very narrow, and formed a regular spiral as in a turret.

And now that same song, “stairway to Heaven” is at the center of another battle over ownership.

I look around the stairway, and I see Al Capone and another guy sitting in the living room having a beef about ‘receipts.’

Finally the man flung his cigar overboard and went down the stairway.

Despite what some have claimed, the cited passages from “stairway to Heaven” and “Spirit” are not identical.

As she closed the front door she cried up the stairway: "Eileen, are you there?"

Word Value for stairway
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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