UP THE STAIRS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does up the stairs mean? 

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

1. on a floor above

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UP THE STAIRS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On a floor above

Synonyms:

on a higher floor; up the stairs; upstairs

Context example:

they lived upstairs

 Context examples 

But I could see four or five men running in great haste, up the stairs, to the top of the island, who then disappeared.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I ran frantically up the stairs and along the passage.

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

Above all the noise we made, I heard them running up the stairs, and crying out—I heard my mother crying out—and Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And it retreated up the stairs?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He glided up the gallery and up the stairs, and stopped in the dark, low corridor of the fateful third storey: I had followed and stood at his side.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Alleyne, as God is my help, as I came up the stairs this night I saw her stand before me, her face in tears, her hands out as though in warning—I saw it, Alleyne, even as I see those two archers upon their couches.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On returning for the third time, Jo gave herself a shake, pulled her hat over her eyes, and walked up the stairs, looking as if she were going to have all her teeth out.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Pity me, dear Miss Dashwood! said Lucy, as they walked up the stairs together—for the Middletons arrived so directly after Mrs. Jennings, that they all followed the servant at the same time—There is nobody here but you, that can feel for me.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She had never rejoiced at the sound before, nor ever before entered the passage, nor walked up the stairs, with any wish of giving pleasure, but in conferring obligation, or of deriving it, except in subsequent ridicule.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was still puzzling over it when I heard the door gently close again, and her footsteps coming up the stairs.

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