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downstairs

[ adverb noun doun-stairz; adjective doun-stairz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

Also downstair. pertaining to or situated on a lower floor, especially the ground floor.

(used with a singular verb) the lower floor or floors of a building:
The downstairs is being painted.
the stairway designated for use by people descending:
Don't try to go up the downstairs.

downstairs

/ ˈdaʊnˈstɛəz /

First recorded in 1590–1600; down ¹ + stair + -s ³

Before long, however, he began to feel out of place and went back downstairs for a while to chat up the cook.

Victoria was, for example, not allowed to walk downstairs without Conroy holding her hand.

I immediately went downstairs and told Dad about the dream whilst he was having his breakfast.

He lived in the Pseudo office, where his downstairs neighbors included Jeff Koons.

My coworkers used to run downstairs to stand on 53rd Street and watch celebrities arrive.

The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.

He could lie in bed and string himself tales of travel and adventure while Harry was downstairs.

Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.

The detective went downstairs and talked with Mrs. McCarthy a few minutes, and then took his leave.

She was so bewildered as to be more alive to the present distress of his condition than to the vague horrors downstairs.

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