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STAIR
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English
English : variant of Stair.
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English
English : from Middle English stegher ‘stair’ (Old English stǣger). In Kent and Sussex this was a topographic name denoting someone who lived on rising ground.
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Hindu
Stairs, Steps
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a basket weaver, from Anglo-Norman French banastre ‘basket’ (the result of a Late Latin cross between Gaulish benna and Greek kanistron). The term denoting a stair rail is unconnected with this name; it was not used before the 17th century.
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Stairs; Steps
Boy/Male
Tamil
Stairs, Steps
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English (chiefly West Country)
English (chiefly West Country) : patronymic from Laver.German : unexplained.French : nickname for someone living at a house with a spiral staircase, Old French lavis.
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American, British, English, French, Hebrew, Irish, Swedish
God is My Oath; Diminutive of Elizabeth; God's Promise
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Tamil
Lingadhyaksha | லிஂகாதà¯à®¯à®•à¯à®·
Lord of the lingas
Girl/Female
Tamil
Prayaathi | பà¯à®°à®¯à®¾à®¤à¯€
Goes
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada
An Ancient King
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Arabic, Muslim
Clever
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English
English : perhaps a variant of Wingham, a habitational name from Wingham, a place in Kent named from an unattested Old English personal name Wiga or Old English wÄ«g ‘heathen temple’ + -inga- ‘of the family or followers of’ + hÄm ‘homestead’, i.e. ‘homestead of Wiga’s people’.
Boy/Male
Vietnamese
Song.
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English
English : unexplained.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Forgiveness, Goddess of life, Maa Parvati
Boy/Male
Native American
Enemy.
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n.
The head or top of a staircase.
n.
The open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.
n.
The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.
n.
A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.
n.
A winding stairway.
n.
A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.
n. pl.
Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.
a.
Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.
v. i.
An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
n.
A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.
v. i.
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
adv.
Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
n.
A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.
n.
One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
v. i.
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
v. i.
One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
n.
Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa, which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell. See Scalaria.
a.
Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.
n.
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.