downstairs vs upstairs

Definitions

adjective

1. on or of lower floors of a building

adverb

1. on a floor below

Examples

Upstairs were the bedrooms; “mother-and-father’s room” the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a “washstand, ” a “bureau, ” a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic.

From downstairs, I heard the clack of the front door.

Carlotta put the salve on Pierce's wounds, before joining her brother downstairs in the parlor.

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Definitions

noun

1. the part of a building above the ground floor

adjective

1. on or of upper floors of a building

adverb

1. on a floor above
2. with respect to the mind

Examples

Upstairs were the bedrooms; “mother-and-father’s room” the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a “washstand, ” a “bureau, ” a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic.

This may be because when he started mixing up a bucket in the new kitchen, billows of dust began puffing under the doors onto my new upstairs carpets.

The mobs of drunken men are whooping it up upstairs.

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