stairhead.

The area or position at the top of a staircase.

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Words that belong together

• wait at the stairhead
• stairhead landing
• stairhead window

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A narrow window lit the stairhead.

She waited at the stairhead until the footsteps below stopped.

From the stairhead, he could see both upper corridors.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular stairhead; plural stairheads. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.