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/ˈstɛɹweɪ/ · noun
A set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down..
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].
Use stairway when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stairway means A set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down..
Common synonyms include staircase, stairs, steps.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].
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