stairway

English

stair +‎ way

stairway (plural stairways)

A set of steps allowing one to walk up or down.
The phrase "stairway to heaven" has a variety of cultural significances.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
  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, […] .

set of steps allowing one to walk up or down comfortably

Armenian: սանդուղք (hy) (sandułkʿ), աստիճաններ (astičanner), փիլաքյան (pʿilakʿyan)
Bashkir: баҫҡыс (baθqïs)
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 樓梯 (zh), 楼梯 (zh) (lóutī)
Czech: schodiště (cs) n
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: portaat (fi) pl, rappuset (fi) pl
French: escalier (fr) m
Galician: escaleiras f pl
Georgian: კიბე (ḳibe)
German: Treppe (de) f
Greek: κλιμακοστάσιο (el) n (klimakostásio), σκάλα (el) f (skála)
Hungarian: lépcsősor (hu), lépcső (hu)

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