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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. President Clinton:

    During my presidency, exercise meant a lot, whether it was upstairs in the White House on an elliptical machine or outside riding my mountain bike.

  2. M. C. Escher:

    Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.

  3. Andy Stenning/Mirrorpix/Getty Images -RRB- McGrady:

    Every five minutes it was one of the charities or a friend sending flowers so I'd have to run downstairs, open the door, take the flowers, bring them back in and upstairs, and then the doorbell would go again.

  4. San Tan Valley:

    It was just a normal night, i went upstairs and knocked on her door and there was no response and I just knew, I knew something was terribly wrong.

  5. William Congreve:

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

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