A step in an ascent or descent; one of a flight of steps; = degree, n. 1. In quots. 1303 1382, a flight of steps. Obsolete.

A flight of stairs or steps; a stairway.

plural. Steps or stairs (collectively); a set or flight of stairs; = sense 1.

An upward slope, an acclivity, a rise; a flight of steps. Also figurative. Obsolete.

plural (rarely †singular). A flight of stone steps, or a steep lane or alley with steps at intervals, forming a passage from one street to another…

A flight of steps, esp. those leading from the cloisters to the choir of a church.

transferred.

A flight of steps.

The series of stairs between any two landings; hence a series of steps, terraces, etc., ascending without change of direction.