fire escape

1. 1.

   a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency

   Synonymsemergency exit

   Broaderstairway

Questions about fire escape

What does fire escape mean?

fire escape means "a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency".

What is another word for fire escape?

Close synonyms include emergency exit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fire escape a common word?

fire escape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.