staired

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
8
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/stɛɹd/
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/stɛɹd/ · /stɛəd/

Definition of staired

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having (a specified kind or number of) stairs.
    “In a device of the kind described, a plurality of platforms normally horizontally disposed in staired arrangement, each of said platforms comprising a pair of elongated platform elements[…]”
    “They are variously described as simple, compound, hanging, tandem or two-staired, intersecting and nivation cirques.”
    “There is also speculation that the name Galata comes from the Italian word for descent (calata), an appropriate description of the steep and staired streets that slope down the hill from Beyoglu to the Golden Horn.”

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Etymology

From stair + -ed.

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