Flight Of Steps

Definition: Flight Of Steps

Flight Of Steps

Noun

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

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Synonyms: Flight Of Steps

Ascent

Noun: ascent, ascension; rising; acclivity, hill; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder

Crosswords: Flight Of Steps

Teeny weeny flight of steps, Sir Wilfrid, we mustn't forget we've had a teeny weeny heart attack. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus)

I have dreams of a rose, and then of falling down a long flight of steps. (The Exorcist III; writing credit: William Peter Blatty)

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Expression using "flight of steps": a flight of steps. Additional references.

Chinese 

台階 (chance to get out from an embarrassing situation). (various references)

German

Treppenflucht. (various references)

Hungarian

utaslépcső (passenger loading stairs, steps), lépcsősor (staircase, stairs, steps). (various references)

Italian

scalinata. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

段 (grade, level, rank, stair, step). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

� �" (body, company, failure, grade, group, level, mandala, party, platform, podium, rank, rostrum, stair, step, troupe). (various references)

Manx

greeishyn. (various references)

Pig Latin

ightflay ofay epsstay

Spanish

tramo de escalera (a flight of steps). (various references)

stoep. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: ghostliest, postflight, spotlights, stoplights.

-4 letters: fishpoles, fleshpots, ghostiest, glottises, helistops, isopleths, pettifogs, shoplifts, slightest, spotlight, stoplight, topflight.

-5 letters: egotists, fishpole, fleshpot, giftless, gothites, helistop, hoplites, hostiles, isopleth, leftists, lightest, loftiest, pettifog, pishoges, pistoles, pithless, plotties, polishes, politest, shoplift, sleights, spittles, stiffest, thistles.