DOWN THE STAIRS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does down the stairs mean? 

• DOWN THE STAIRS (adverb)
  The adverb DOWN THE STAIRS has 1 sense:

1. on a floor below

  Familiarity information: DOWN THE STAIRS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOWN THE STAIRS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On a floor below

Synonyms:

below; down the stairs; downstairs; on a lower floor

Context example:

the tenants live downstairs

 Context examples 

“Better close the front door,” cried Holmes, and we all rushed down the stairs together.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, how did he know that? he asked himself as he went down the stairs.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There’s no use going on a ghost hunt unless—Great Lord, there’s something coming down the stairs!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He said this solemnly, bare-headed; then, putting on his hat, he went down the stairs, and away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I went down the stairs and into the hall, where I found the commissionnaire fast asleep in his box, with the kettle boiling furiously upon the spirit-lamp.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Got so touchy that he assaults anyone who asks questions, and heaves reporters down the stairs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the boy called to him for the third time, and as that was also to no purpose, he ran against him and pushed the ghost down the stairs, so that it fell down the ten steps and remained lying there in a corner.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Sir Nigel was thrown down by the sheer weight of them, and Sir Bertrand with his thunderous war-cry was swinging round his heavy sword to clear a space for him to rise, when the whistle of two long English arrows, and the rush of the squire and the two English archers down the stairs, turned the tide of the combat.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as I approached.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)