upstairs
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- noun
- /ˌʌpˈstɛrz/
:
planta superior
- The rest of the upstairs is still shut off.
And so he kind of took over the whole upstairs.
- And so he kind of took over the whole upstairs.
- And then the upstairs, the belly room, which was the room for women comics.
Examples
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The rest of the upstairs is pretty clean but it's just my stuff that is awful.
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I'll show you the upstairs.
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The officers said that the orders came from upstairs, and they could not question them.
Fiction book (1991) -
I smell something awful coming from the upstairs apartment.
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There was a light on upstairs in the bedroom, my mother's old bedroom.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then I made a note to change the sheets in the upstairs bedrooms.
Fiction book (1990) -
I've lived in the upstairs room for many years now.
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Hey, you know, Kevin's upstairs doing his homework right now.
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A battered suitcase from the upstairs closet stood next to the couch.
Fiction book (1994) -
The upstairs area of the house is perfect for a home office.
Synonyms
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A floor in a building
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A space just below the roof of a house often used to store things
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An open top-floor space under the roof used for living or storage
Upstairs in the part of a house where the family lives
Antonyms
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Describing a room or place that is on a lower floor of a building, often the floor below
Compounds
- Informal
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A casual name for God used when people mean someone who watches over them
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
upstairs = stairs (transparent) = up + s
Noun sense denotes the upper part of a building using the same literal spatial composition 'up' + 'stairs'. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Upstairs (noun) comes from up and stairs, and it means 'the part of a building above the ground floor', the rooms you reach by going up the steps.