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This word is often used in the plural in the sense shown in 1).
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A feminine noun is almost always used with feminine articles and adjectives (e.g. la mujer bonita, la luna llena).
feminine noun
1. (in a building)
a. stairs
Tuvimos que subir por las escaleras.We had to go up the stairs.
b. stairway
La escalera da al mar.The stairway leads to the ocean.
c. staircase
Las escaleras están oscuras de noche.The staircase is dark at night.
2. (portable)
a. ladder
Los bomberos siempre llevan una escalera en su camión.The firefighters always carry a ladder on their truck.
3. (cards)
a. straight
Su full le ganó a mi escalera.Her full house beat my straight.
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escalera
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).
Noun
1. (en edificio)
a. stairs, staircase
2. (de mano)
a. ladder
escalera de caracolspiral staircase
escalera de incendiosfire escape
escalera mecánicaescalator
escalera de servicioservice stairs
escalera de tijerastep ladder
3. (en naipes)
a. run
escalera de colorstraight flush
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escalera
1 [de edificio] stairs
plural
; (p) staircase
corrió escaleras abajo she ran downstairs o down the stairs; se cayó por las escaleras she fell downstairs o down the stairs; han pintado la escalera they've painted the staircase; una escalera de mármol a marble staircase
escalera de caracol spiral staircase
escalera de incendios fire escape
escalera de servicio backstairs
plural
; (p)
escalera mecánica escalera móvil escalator
2 (portátil) ladder
escalera de cuerda rope ladder
escalera de mano ladder
escalera de nudos rope ladder
escalera de pintor escalera de tijera escalera doble stepladder; steps
plural
; (p)
escalera extensible extension ladder
una escalera extensible es la que utilizan los bomberos para subir a los pisos más altos
3 (Naipes) run; sequence; (en póquer) straight
escalera de color straight flush
Collins Complete Spanish Electronic Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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