story ②stairs ③stage (in chronostratigraphy) ④counter for stories and floors of a building

stairs

stage ②level ③order ④stairs

(social) class ②rank

floor above

class

final stage

first floor ②one floor ③one rank

emergency staircase

lower floor

present stage ②current rank

what floor

scale

first basement floor

initial stage

stairs ②rank ③guide ④slanted ladder (exercise equipment)

privileged class

upper class

graded on N steps

experimental stage

stairs ②stairs at the front of a noh stage

pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa