step ladder

1. 1.

   a folding portable ladder hinged at the top

   Synonymsstepladder

   Broaderladder

Questions about step ladder

What does step ladder mean?

step ladder means "a folding portable ladder hinged at the top".

What is another word for step ladder?

Close synonyms include stepladder. 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 step ladder a common word?

step ladder 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.