hall vs staircase

hall

noun
  • A corridor; a hallway. 

  • A meal served and eaten at a college's hall. 

  • A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall. 

  • A meeting room. 

  • A building providing student accommodation at a university. 

  • A living room. 

  • A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences. 

  • The principal room of a secular medieval building. 

  • A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion). 

staircase

noun
  • A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell. 

  • A flight of stairs; a stairway. 

  • A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next. 

verb
  • To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps. 

  • To increase one's share in a co-ownership. 

How often have the words hall and staircase occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )