UPSTAIRS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upstairs mean? 

• UPSTAIRS (noun)
  The noun UPSTAIRS has 1 sense:

1. the part of a building above the ground floor

  Familiarity information: UPSTAIRS used as a noun is very rare.

• UPSTAIRS (adjective)
  The adjective UPSTAIRS has 1 sense:

1. on or of upper floors of a building

  Familiarity information: UPSTAIRS used as an adjective is very rare.

• UPSTAIRS (adverb)
  The adverb UPSTAIRS has 2 senses:

1. on a floor above

2. with respect to the mind

  Familiarity information: UPSTAIRS used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPSTAIRS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of a building above the ground floor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

no one was allowed to see the upstairs

Hypernyms ("upstairs" is a kind of...):

part; portion (something less than the whole of a human artifact)

Holonyms ("upstairs" is a part of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

• UPSTAIRS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On or of upper floors of a building

Synonyms:

upstair; upstairs

Context example:

an upstairs room

Antonym:

downstairs (on or of lower floors of a building)

• UPSTAIRS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On a floor above

Synonyms:

on a higher floor; up the stairs; upstairs

Context example:

they lived upstairs

Antonym:

downstairs (on a floor below)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With respect to the mind

Context example:

she's a bit weak upstairs

 Context examples 

"That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it," said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hummels.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Professor noticed it, too, and motioned me to bring him upstairs.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As soon as I could creep away, I crept upstairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But before she was half way upstairs she heard the parlour door open, and, turning round, was astonished to see Edward himself come out.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The commissionnaire, seeing by my pale face that something was to be feared, had followed me upstairs.

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

Those upstairs waited for the drink, but Clever Elsie still did not come.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We carried her upstairs, laid her on the sofa, and a couple of cups of the strongest coffee soon cleared her brain from the mists of the drug.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As she walked slowly upstairs she thought of yesterday; it had been about the same hour that she had returned from the Parsonage, and found Edmund in the East room.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)