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upstairs Definition

up·stairs (up′sterz′)

adverb

  1. up the stairs
  2. on or to an upper floor or higher level
  3. Informal mentally; in the mind a person who lacks something upstairs

adjective

situated on an upper floor

noun

an upper floor or floors

upstairs Synonyms

upstairs

modif.

in the upper story, on an upper floor, overhead, above, up the steps; see also upper.

upstairs Synonyms

upstairs

n.

the upper story, the penthouse, the sleeping apartments, the rooms above the ground floor; see attic, floor 2.

upstairs Quotes

We all three got up on our elephant which brought us hither. For my own part I found [it] very uneasy riding, being badly seated and not accustomed (he had such a shuffling, jogging justling pace), sitting hindermost on the ridge of his monstrous massy chine bones, and nothing at all under me (nor they neither) that I wished myselfonfoot and would havelet myselffall off butthat it was somewhat too high. In fine, we alighted off from his back into the upper galleries of the house and saved the labour going upstairs.

—Mundy, Peter

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

—Congreve,William

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