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Grammar : Adj |
Spell : uhp-stairz |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʌpˈstɛərz |
Definition of upstairs
Origin :- 1590s (adj.), from up + stairs (see stair). The noun is first attested 1872. Meaning "characteristic of upstairs life" (in private rooms of a household, as opposed to servants' quarters) is recorded from 1942.
- He [Halifax] had said he had known many kicked down stairs, but he never knew any kicked up stairs before. [Gilbert Burnet, supplement to "History of My own Time," from his original memoirs, c.1697]
- adj on an upper floor
- Upstairs there must have been two more rooms of the same size.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- And by the spring of eighteen eighty he was upstairs in his room, too ill to be moved.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- Uriah Heep may be a crawling creature; but his crawling takes him upstairs.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
- When K. insisted on carrying her upstairs, she went in a flutter.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- "Good-night, Christine," he said, and went into the hall and upstairs.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- But when she learned that K. was upstairs, oddly enough, she did not go up at once.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- They are upstairs in such a funny place that I must go myself.
- Extract from : « Echoes of the War » by J. M. Barrie
- When she come in upstairs with you and Fisbee, they were jest as blue!
- Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
- At last they gathered round, and agreed to carry him upstairs to bed.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- They carried him upstairs, and crushed the youngest gentleman at every step.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
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