Crossword-Solution: STAIR 5 letters, 271 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Stair	n.	One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.
Stair	n.	A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STAIR	anagram	ARIST, ARTIS, ASTIR, ATRIS, ISART, ISTAR, ISTRA, RATIS, RITAS, SATIR, SIRAT, SITAR, SITRA, SRITA, STARI, STRIA, TARSI, TIRAS, TRIAS

We have 271 clues for the answer “STAIR”

Clue	Answers
"As I was going up the ___ / I met a man who wasn't there!"	1 answer
"Case" or "way" leader	1 answer
"Life for me ain't been no crystal ___" (Langston Hughes line)	1 answer
"We passed upon the ___, we spoke in was and when" Bowie	1 answer
"We passed upon the ___, we spoke in was and when" Bowie lyric	1 answer
"We passed upon the ___, we spoke of was and when" Bowie/Nirvana	1 answer
Step between floors	1 answer
A step up, perhaps	1 answer
A way up or down	1 answer
Aid in ascension	1 answer
Ascending step.	1 answer
Bad place for a roller skate	1 answer
Baluster connection	1 answer
Before case or well	1 answer
Case beginning	1 answer
Case opening?	1 answer
Case or well	1 answer
Case or well preceder	1 answer
Climbing unit	1 answer
Connector of floors	1 answer
Creaky part of a house	1 answer
Crutch wielder's hurdle	1 answer
Device for upward mobility	1 answer
Dive bar might have one as a stage	1 answer
Dive-bar stage?	1 answer
Elevated step	1 answer
Elevating device	1 answer
Elevator's neighbor	1 answer
Escalator relative	1 answer
Escalier.	1 answer
First step to a new story?	1 answer
Flight Unit A/C	1 answer
Flight maker	1 answer
Flight strip	1 answer
Flight that never takes off	1 answer
Help in getting to the next level?	1 answer
Help on the way to the top?	1 answer
Individual step	1 answer
It can lead to a landing	1 answer
It comes in a case	1 answer
It connects levels	1 answer
It consists of a riser and a tread	1 answer
It could be a step up	1 answer
It gives one a leg up	1 answer
It goes from one story to another	1 answer
It has a tread	1 answer
It may be winding	1 answer
It may have a well	1 answer
It may lead to a landing	1 answer
It might lead you to change your story?	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ARETE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with STAIR (5)

Each Stair mysteriously was meant, nor stood There alwaies, but drawn up to Heav’n somtimes Viewless, and underneath a bright Sea flow’d Of Jasper, or of liquid Pearle, whereon Who after came from Earth, sayling arriv’d, Wafted by Angels, or flew o’re the Lake Rapt in a Chariot drawn by fiery Steeds.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

She had sunk down on the lowest stair; and there she sat, her mouth blue and dry, and her dark eyes fixed vacantly upon him, as if she wondered whether it were not all a terrible illusion.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Wailing on the altar stair Wives and grandams rend the air— Long-drawn moans and piercing cries Blent with prayers and litanies.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

After a time I discovered that I was cold and wet, and with little pools of water about me on the stair carpet.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Utterson’s nerves, at this unlooked-for termination, gave a jerk that nearly threw him from his balance; but he re-collected his courage and followed the butler into the laboratory building and through the surgical theatre, with its lumber of crates and bottles, to the foot of the stair.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

Quotes with STAIR (3)

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?

Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

Tom Robbins

Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights.""Oh." His polite tone had returned." I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him." Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 549 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).