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US
/əpˈstɛɹz/
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NOUN
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the part of a building above the ground floor
no one was allowed to see the upstairs
ADJECTIVE
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on or of upper floors of a building
an upstairs room
the upstairs maid
ADVERB
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on a floor above
they lived upstairs -
with respect to the mind
she's a bit weak upstairs
How To Use upstairs In A Sentence
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers 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. Chapter 1
- The mobs of drunken men are whooping it up upstairs.
- Basically, when I finally do repaper, it will involve painting and re-doing the entire upstairs of the house, and I will lose a whole summer of writing time. The knob theory of the universe
- That's when his father took over what was then a restaurant and converted it into a grocery store; as of the making of the film, Toupin fils had lived in that same building (in an apartment upstairs) for all of his 52 years.
- 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.
- One night I was pouring my own drinks behind the upstairs bar.
- The principal rooms, both downstairs and upstairs, have decorative mantelpieces and cornices that are imaginatively conceived and neatly executed.
- Finally at half-past three I went upstairs to dress as a grammar-school arriviste. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- She crept upstairs, quiet as a mouse.
- We would often retreat to one of the rooms upstairs. Times, Sunday Times