FLIGHT OF STAIRS (flights of stairs)

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Irregular inflected form: flights of stairs   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does flight of stairs mean? 

• FLIGHT OF STAIRS (noun)
  The noun FLIGHT OF STAIRS has 1 sense:

1. a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next

  Familiarity information: FLIGHT OF STAIRS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLIGHT OF STAIRS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

flight; flight of stairs; flight of steps

Hypernyms ("flight of stairs" is a kind of...):

staircase; stairway (a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps)

 Context examples 

Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR) Climb one flight of stairs.

(FIQR - Climb One Flight of Stairs, NCI Thesaurus)

After a flight of stairs, it gives me as much trouble to draw every breath I want, as if it was a bucket of water.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A corridor joined the theatre to the door on the by-street; and with this the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight of stairs.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

‘In order to reach the billiard-room I had to descend a flight of stairs and then to cross the head of a passage which led to the library and the gun-room.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A question about climbing several flights of stairs.

(Climbing Several Flights of Stairs, NCI Thesaurus)

Angina occurs on walking 1 to 2 blocks on the level and climbing 1 flight of stairs in normal conditions and at a normal pace.

(Canadian Cardiovascular Society Grading Scale Class, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about climbing one flight of stairs.

(Climbing One Flight of Stairs, NCI Thesaurus)

So Dorothy said good-bye to all her friends except Toto, and taking the dog in her arms followed the green girl through seven passages and up three flights of stairs until they came to a room at the front of the Palace.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

After some breakage of the office furniture, the editor (an ex-college athlete), ably assisted by the business manager, an advertising agent, and the porter, succeeded in removing Martin from the office and in accelerating, by initial impulse, his descent of the first flight of stairs.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As we turned to ascend the last flight of stairs between us and the roof, we caught a full view of this figure pausing for a moment, at a door.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)