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The Spanish word for ladder is
escalera





ladder

Gender

The gender of escalera is feminine. E.g. la escalera.

Plural

The plural of escalera is escaleras.

Spanish Definition


ladder
     1. escalera, escala



Translations for ladder and their definitions

escalera
     1. n-f. stairs
     2. n-f. staircase, stairway
     3. n-f. ladder
     4. n-f. (poker) straight


escala
     1. n-f. ladder (a frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent)
     2. n-f. scale (an ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude)
     3. n-f. (music) scale (a series of notes spanning an octave)
     4. n-f. ladder, hierarchy (of a company, of the military)
     5. n-f. scale (the ratio of depicted distance to actual distance)
     6. n-f. scale (size; scope)
           a gran escala - on a broad scale
     7. n-f. stopover, layover (a short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption)
     8. v. third-person singular present indicative of escalar


escalafón
     1. n-m. ranking, hierarchy; an echelon


Carrera
     1. Proper noun. a Spanish surname
     2. n-f. race
           Es una carrera contra el tiempo. - It's a race against time.
     3. n-f. run (act of running)
     4. n-f. (baseball) run
     5. n-f. (academics) course of study
           Es una carrera de cuatro años. - The course takes four years to complete.
           Estoy haciendo la carrera de sociología. - I'm majoring in sociology.
     6. n-f. career
           El escándalo arruinó su carrera. - The scandal ruined his career.
     7. n-f. run (line of knit stitches which have unravelled)
           Tienes una carrera en las medias. - Your pantyhose has a run in it.
     8. n-f. journey, fare (of a taxi)
     9. n-f. path ((of a moving object)), trajectory
     10. n-f. (Colombia) avenue generally in a north–south direction and vice versa, as opposed to a calle (east–west or vice versa)
     11. n-f. female equivalent of carrero


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