Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Up the stairs.
- adverb To or on a higher floor.
- adverb To or at a higher level.
- adjective Of or located on an upper floor.
- noun The part of a building above the ground floor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or to an upper story: as, to go up-stairs.
- Pertaining or relating to an upper story or flat; being above stairs: as, an up-stairs room.
- noun An upper story; that part of a building which is above the ground floor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being above stairs.
- adverb Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Up the stairs; on a higher
floor orlevel . - adverb slang In the
brain . - adjective
located higher up a building. - adjective baseball a
pitched ball that is high, and usuallyoutside thestrike zone
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with respect to the mind
- adverb on a floor above
- adjective on or of upper floors of a building
- noun the part of a building above the ground floor
Etymologies
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Examples
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His side also got a lot of roof damage, so his upstairs is a big, fallen-plaster, mess.
This Old House Slimbolala 2005
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His side also got a lot of roof damage, so his upstairs is a big, fallen-plaster, mess.
Archive 2005-10-01 Slimbolala 2005
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"Is that your quarrel with what you call the upstairs god system?"
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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"I just didn't want people knowing about my life," he explains as we sit in his office located just upstairs from the workshop.
Joy Yoon: The Well-Honed Craft of George Esquivel (PHOTOS) Joy Yoon 2010
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I just didn't want people knowing about my life, he explains as we sit in his office located just upstairs from the workshop.
Joy Yoon: The Well-Honed Craft of George Esquivel (PHOTOS) Joy Yoon 2010
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Meanwhile, the nice family living upstairs is starting to worry about the workaholic Dr. Jekyll.
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Meanwhile, the nice family living upstairs is starting to worry about the workaholic Dr. Jekyll.
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I just didn't want people knowing about my life, he explains as we sit in his office located just upstairs from the workshop.
Joy Yoon: The Well-Honed Craft of George Esquivel (PHOTOS) Joy Yoon 2010
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The only way to get to the upstairs is byclimbing a ladder:
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I just didn't want people knowing about my life, he explains as we sit in his office located just upstairs from the workshop.
Joy Yoon: The Well-Honed Craft of George Esquivel (PHOTOS) Joy Yoon 2010
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