Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vertical shaft around which a staircase has been built.
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- noun A
shaft in amulti-story building enclosing astairway orstaircase .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vertical well around which there is a stairway
Etymologies
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Examples
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Recently Barg discovered that the man who called out to him and the others in the stairwell is a supervisor at Baseline Financial.
USATODAY.com - Survivor: 'The world has changed for us indeed' 2002
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A pristine stairwell is one more step toward her objective: a data-driven, no-excuses haven for learning, where all children excel and shoestrings never come undone.
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And now the stairwell is painted and timprov's Hidden Falls picture is hung in it, and I am pleased.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 4th_st_fantasy 2010
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There was seriously a lineup two floors down the stairwell from the roof; a patient queue waiting for the sixty-storey diving board.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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And now the stairwell is painted and timprov's Hidden Falls picture is hung in it, and I am pleased.
mrissa: Five things mrissa 2010
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The stairwell is made of 6 thick Tiger Wood treads.
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The Port Authority also put batteries in stairwell lights so a power failure wouldn't blacken the escape route.
USATODAY.com - For many on Sept. 11, survival was no accident 2001
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The only doors that opened from the stairwell were the ones on the parking level.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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The only doors that opened from the stairwell were the ones on the parking level.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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The stairwell was a windowless concrete chimney stretching endlessly above us and echoing with the clatter of pounding feet.
Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009
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