stairway
nounUK /ˈsteə.weɪ/
US /ˈster.weɪ/
A stairway is a set of steps that takes you from one floor to another.
She ran up the stairway to her bedroom.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A passage or route that rises like stairs.
The narrow stairway wound up the side of the hill.
3. A way of moving upward or making progress, often used figuratively.
Education is a stairway to a better life.
4. The part of a building that contains the stairs.
The stairway was dark, so they turned on the light.