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synonyms for back stairs

  • side door
  • back entrance
  • back way
  • escape hatch
  • indirect access
  • means of entry
  • postern
  • postern door
  • secret exit
  • secretive or illicit method
  • trap door
  • trapdoor
  • wormhole
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to back stairs, such as: side door, back entrance, back way, escape hatch, indirect access, and means of entry.
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How to use back stairs in a sentence

They hurry in a frenzy up the back-stairs about 1.25, and they pace up and down in a frenzy till half-past one.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 158, APRIL 28, 1920VARIOUS
From the main landing he walked along the narrow corridor until he stood at the head of the back stairs.
DOPESAX ROHMER
I have scarcely got to the back-stairs when the people begin peeping out again.
"PERSONS UNKNOWN"VIRGINIA TRACY
Saying goodnight to the men who would carry on in her absence, she went down the back stairs to the street.
GHOST BEYOND THE GATEMILDRED A. WIRT
Luce is going to have nurse take the babies always down the back stairs, for fear I should hear them as they come out and in.
A SHEAF OF CORNMARY E. MANN
Mr. Chamberlain continued to tumble down the Boer back stairs head over heels, yelling out excuses as he descended.
A WOMAN'S PART IN A REVOLUTIONNATALIE HARRIS HAMMOND
In order to get out of this room one had to pass through a hall into another room, where a back stairs led down to the rear yard.
HISTORY OF 'BILLY THE KID'CHAS. A. SIRINGO
He listened a moment through the screen, then entered and went noiselessly up the back stairs.
THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSON
We shall make our way down the area, enter the window, and ascend the back stairs till we stand inside that front door.
THE HARMSWORTH MAGAZINE, VOL. 1, 1898-1899, NO. 6VARIOUS
At the earliest possible moment after supper, Nancy crept up the back stairs and thence to the attic room.
POLLYANNAELEANOR H. PORTER
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO BACK STAIRS

  • back entrance
  • back stairs
  • back way
  • escape hatch
  • indirect access
  • means of entry
  • postern
  • postern door
  • secret exit
  • secretive or illicit method
  • side door
  • trap door
  • trapdoor
  • wormhole
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.