downstairs
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.
Origin of downstairs
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How to use downstairs in a sentence
I went downstairs to get something and I heard one of the security team say to another, “Dude, I think they ought to lock these doors.”
He favors complete focus on Bills games, and so Johnson retreated to the third-floor attic, alone, while his wife and kids watched downstairs.
‘Bills Mafia’ waited a generation for a team like this. It’s had to embrace it from afar. | Adam Kilgore | January 7, 2021 | Washington PostHe’d sneak downstairs to make one for himself, but I’d always find him.
We dress early for our reservation to allow a little time downstairs for a game of pool.
Escape (safely) to Baltimore’s luxurious Ivy Hotel | Kevin Naff | December 4, 2020 | Washington BladeWhenever people lingered downstairs or smoked out on the patio, staff ushered them back to their rooms.
“We Don’t Even Know Who Is Dead or Alive”: Trapped Inside an Assisted Living Facility During the Pandemic | by Ava Kofman | November 30, 2020 | ProPublica
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.
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death | Patricia Pearson | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe lived in the Pseudo office, where his downstairs neighbors included Jeff Koons.
A ‘Truman Show’ For Today: The Return of Josh Harris | Anthony Haden-Guest | July 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy coworkers used to run downstairs to stand on 53rd Street and watch celebrities arrive.
Face It—We Rubes Will Never Live Like Gwyneth and Jennifer Aniston | Rachel Bertsche | July 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxHe could lie in bed and string himself tales of travel and adventure while Harry was downstairs.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingShrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThe detective went downstairs and talked with Mrs. McCarthy a few minutes, and then took his leave.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxShe was so bewildered as to be more alive to the present distress of his condition than to the vague horrors downstairs.
The Daisy Chain | Charlotte Yonge
British Dictionary definitions for downstairs
/ (ˈdaʊnˈstɛəz) /
down the stairs; to or on a lower floor
a lower or ground floor
(as modifier): a downstairs room
British informal, old-fashioned the servants of a household collectively: Compare upstairs (def. 6)
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