a way of access consisting of a set of steps

A portable flight of stairs, or a self supporting ladder with flat steps.

We went down some steps. – A Woman Named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler

He opened the gate and led the little lady across the few steps to the door. – The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

I went down the steps. – The New Book Of Martyrs by Georges Duhamel

Long before one o'clock I was to be seen on the library steps, waiting for the door of paradise to open. – The Promised Land by Mary Antin

As I came up the steps behind her friend, Mrs. Janeway, she took hold of me and asked 'Who is this? – Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Annie Roe Carr

He now retraced his steps, and at length decided to return to the boat and wait there. – Lost in the Cañon by Alfred R. Calhoun

" There is Miss Morton just coming down the steps," said Amy; " perhaps if I were to go away, you would like to say something now." – Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Sewell

Thence to my Lord Crew, to see him after my coming out of the country, and he seems satisfied with some steps they have made in my absence towards my Lord Sandwich's relief for money: and so I have no more to do, nor will trouble myself more about it till they send for me. – Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright by Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

Two more steps and he would have walked into it. – The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard

By this time he was at the head of the steps. – The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer

He steps back again. – Three Comedies by Björnstjerne M. Björnson Commentator: R. Farquharson Sharp

He had not taken these steps without an object. – The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid

I had been thinking, as we stood on the steps. – The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Various

At a sign Asgeelo, who had already taken two steps toward the door, paused. – Cord and Creese by James de Mille

He had grown tired of standing out there in the yard, and he now found his way up the steps. – Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. Woodworth

For a few steps they were under no fire. – The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer

She went a few steps away and stood with her hands before her face, then she went to sit by the tea- table. – The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt

And with that she turned and ran down the steps. – Miss Billy by Eleanor H. Porter

Would you like me to take any steps about the sale for you? – The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre

What steps should we take first? – A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Boothby