noun
flight
A set of stairs between landings.
A narrow flight of stairs leads to the upper room.
Etymology
The stair sense treats a continuous sequence of steps as one course upward. A landing ends that run and separates it from the next flight.
More examples
- She climbed three flights before reaching her office.
- The next flight ends at a small landing.
- He paused halfway up the steep flight.
Forms
flight · flights
Similar words
- stairway
- May include several flights and landings.
- staircase
- The whole structure, potentially containing several flights.