Associations to the word «Staircase»

Wiktionary

STAIRCASE, noun. A flight of stairs; a stairway.
STAIRCASE, noun. A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
STAIRCASE, noun. A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.
STAIRCASE LOCK, noun. A set of locks on a waterway canal which rise steeply, and consisting of lock gates where the top gate of one lock is also the bottom gate of the next lock, not having a pound between each level.
STAIRCASE LOCKS, noun. Plural of staircase lock

Dictionary definition

STAIRCASE, noun. A way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats