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downstairs

downstairs

3 1.0
Describing a room or place that is on a lower floor of a building, often the floor below
  • adjective
  • /ˌdaʊnˈstɛrz/
translation icon : de abajo
  • The entire of the downstairs just stunk of fish.

Examples

  • And then we're going to keep our downstairs toilet just through here.

  • We'll be downstairs, okay?

    Room (2015)

  • The record rooms are downstairs, guy.

    The Ring (2002)

  • So we're here now in the inside and downstairs is where the actual theater is.

  • We have our whole grow room downstairs that we can start seeds in.

  • OK, We're going to do a downstairs remodel.

  • There's a bathroom and then the downstairs living room is just so spacious.

  • Annette's parents are downstairs, shocked.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • It looks like a big house on the ocean and there's like a downstairs and an upstairs.

  • The children are playing in the downstairs living room while their parents relax upstairs.

Antonyms

upstairs
24 1.0

On an upper floor of a building

How Low

downstairs
3 1.0
upstairs
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

downstairs positive

Morphology

downstairs = stairs (transparent) = down + stairs

The adjective sense is formed by the same compound 'down' + 'stairs' and directly denotes location on a lower floor. [Postprocessing: moved 'down' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Downstairs is made of down ('below') and stairs ('steps that go between floors'). So a downstairs room or bathroom is one that is on the lower floor of a house or building.