stairhead

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the top of a flight of stairs or the landing at the top of a staircase

   Jane paused at the stairhead to listen to the voices below.

A compound of stair + head, recorded from the sixteenth century. Head carries its spatial sense 'top or upper end,' so the stairhead is the upper end of a flight of stairs or the landing reached there.

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