Stairs

Definition

stair /steǝ(r)/ n (က) stairs [pl] (အိမ္တြင္တစ္ထပ္မွ တစ္ထပ္ ကူးေသာ) (အခိုင္အမာ)ေလွကား။ climb a long/short flight of stairs ❍ at the foot/head of the stairs (ie at the bottom/top of a set of stairs) ❍ I passed her on the stairs. ❍ He came rushing down the stairs to greet her. (ခ) [C] ယင္း ေလွကားထစ္။ The child was sitting on the bottom stair. ❍ STAIRCASE adj ေလွကား (သို႔) ေလွကားေအာက္။ a stair carpet/cupboard. ❏ above/below stairs [ IDM ] ( dated ) အိမ္ရွင္တို႔ ေနရာ အိမ္ေပၚထပ္ႏွင့္ အိမ္ေစတို႔ေနရာ ေအာက္ထပ္။ Their affairs were being discussed below stairs (ie by the servants).

Examples

1. They heard footsteps on the stairs.
2. [up/down the stairs] : John raced down the stairs to answer the door.
3. [the top/head of the stairs] : Someone was waiting at the top of the stairs.
4. [the bottom/foot of the stairs] : He left his bags at the foot of the stairs.
5. [a flight of stairs] : My bedroom was up two flights of stairs.
6. [climb the stairs] : I climbed the stairs to Charles’s office.
7. He was standing on the bottom stair.