FLIGHT OF STEPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flight of steps mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLIGHT OF STEPS (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 steps" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

At the end was a short flight of steps ending in a door.

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

Alleyne followed the messenger to the east end of the courtyard, where a broad flight of steps led up to the doorway of the main hall, the outer wall of which is washed by the waters of the Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search.

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

Having descended a staircase, traversed a portion of the house below, and succeeded in opening and shutting, without noise, two doors, I reached another flight of steps; these I mounted, and then just opposite to me was Miss Temple's room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A considerable flight of steps landed them in the wilderness, which was a planted wood of about two acres, and though chiefly of larch and laurel, and beech cut down, and though laid out with too much regularity, was darkness and shade, and natural beauty, compared with the bowling-green and the terrace.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Rushworth submitted; and the question of surveying the grounds, with the who and the how, was likely to be more fully agitated, and Mrs. Norris was beginning to arrange by what junction of carriages and horses most could be done, when the young people, meeting with an outward door, temptingly open on a flight of steps which led immediately to turf and shrubs, and all the sweets of pleasure-grounds, as by one impulse, one wish for air and liberty, all walked out.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)