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Synonyms for upstairs

Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhp-stairz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʌpˈstɛərz

Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Antonyms for upstairs

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