downstairs
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- adverb
- /ˌdaʊnˈstɛrz/
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- By the time we got downstairs to the street, we were both reeling.
- go downstairs
- come downstairs
- run downstairs
She now sleeps most of the day downstairs in the kids bunk bed.
- She now sleeps most of the day downstairs in the kids bunk bed.
- They, my youngest son was downstairs watching TV.
- Everything's set up so we cannot go downstairs until that is ready.
- My mother, she says come downstairs, you got a fax.
- I still have it downstairs in our storage.
- I go down the steps downstairs and I go, hi, I'm.
- And then we had our partner force was downstairs holding, holding security.
- So we go up in the elevator, we're downstairs, and suddenly I'm upstairs.
Examples
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Secretary Stanton is waiting for you downstairs.
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Come downstairs, I wanna talk to you for a minute, please.
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Last thing up here before we go downstairs is this.
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I still have it downstairs in our storage.
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I told her it should be downstairs, where it always was.
Academic text (2010) -
Things have been really busy downstairs.
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My mother, she says come downstairs, you got a fax.
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There's a car waiting for me downstairs.
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I could hear Linda walking around downstairs after Bernie had gone to bed.
Fiction book (1990) -
I left my book downstairs on the coffee table.
Synonyms
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At a lower level or amount than before
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A place that is under something, for example a room or floor
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Toward a lower place or level
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Toward a lower place, level, or position
Into a place that is lower down
Antonyms
How Low
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Downstairs is made of two simple words: down ('below') and stairs ('steps that go between floors'). So to go downstairs is to move to a lower floor, usually by the stairs.