STAIRHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stairhead mean? 

• STAIRHEAD (noun)
  The noun STAIRHEAD has 1 sense:

1. platform at the top of a staircase

  Familiarity information: STAIRHEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAIRHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Platform at the top of a staircase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stairhead" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

Holonyms ("stairhead" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

When tired of this occupation, I would retire from the stairhead to the solitary and silent nursery: there, though somewhat sad, I was not miserable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)