What does upstairs mean?

Definitions for upstairs
ˈʌpˈstɛərzup·stairs

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. upstairsadjective

    the part of a building above the ground floor

    "no one was allowed to see the upstairs"

  2. upstairs, upstairadverb

    on or of upper floors of a building

    "the upstairs maid"; "an upstairs room"

  3. upstairs, up the stairs, on a higher flooradverb

    on a floor above

    "they lived upstairs"

  4. upstairsadverb

    with respect to the mind

    "she's a bit weak upstairs"

Wiktionary

  1. upstairsadverb

    Up the stairs; on a higher floor or level.

  2. upstairsadverb

    In the brain.

    After Joe did a hula dance on the kitchen table, his friends wondered if he didn't have a lot going on upstairs.

  3. upstairsadjective

    located higher up a building.

    They can sleep in the upstairs bedroom.

  4. upstairsadjective

    a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone

    That fastball was upstairs for a ball.

  5. Etymology: From up + stair + -s

ChatGPT

  1. upstairs

    Upstairs refers to the rooms or space located on a higher level of a building, accessible through a staircase. It is typically used in reference to a house, indicating the area or floor that is above the ground floor.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Upstairsadverb

    up the stairs; in or toward an upper story

  2. Upstairsadjective

    being above stairs; as, an upstairs room

Wikidata

  1. Upstairs

    Clean is the third studio album by the Contemporary worship duo Shane & Shane. The album was released on May 18, 2004 by Inpop Records label, and the producers on the effort is Will Hunt and Shane & Shane.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Upstairs

    up-stārz′, adv. in or toward the upper story.—adj. Up′stairs, pertaining to an upper story or flat.—n. an upper story.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'upstairs' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4599

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'upstairs' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1165

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'upstairs' in Adverbs Frequency: #265

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of upstairs in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of upstairs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of upstairs in a Sentence

  1. Ted Zellers:

    Steel workers would come home. They would clean up down in the basement before they came upstairs.

  2. William Congreve:

    I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.

  3. Robert Pepe:

    Not many people come back from that in the condition that he looked like he was in upstairs where he was walking, he was talking, his hair was all done, he was happy, there’s no better feeling in the world than to see something like that; you’ve actually affected someone in a very positive way.

  4. Stephen Fitzpatrick:

    The girls, who were all upstairs, heard what was going on in the living room, as they came to the staircase, Bobby Vanderhall was already coming up after them.

  5. Dale Earnhardt:

    Physically they are all different and are going to provide a different style of racing and a different style of entertainment, the town does have a lot of energy. When we were there doing the burnout on the boulevard, I was upstairs in one of those buildings looking out the window watching and it was clear as day that this was a great relationship and a great partnership.

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