steps

1. 1.

   a flight of stairs or a flight of steps

   Synonymsstairs

   Broaderstairway

   Narrowerladder

   plural

2. 2.

   the course along which a person has walked or is walking in

   “I followed in his steps”

   “he retraced his steps”

   “his steps turned toward home”

   Broaderpath

   plural

Other forms of steps

plural

stepses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about steps

What does steps mean?

steps means "a flight of stairs or a flight of steps". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in steps?

steps has 1 syllable: steps. In IPA it is /ˈstɛps/.

What is another word for steps?

Close synonyms include stairs. 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 steps a common word?

steps is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.