UPSTAIRS


Meaning of UPSTAIRS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʌpsteə(r)z ]

1.

If you go upstairs in a building, you go up a staircase towards a higher floor.

He went upstairs and changed into fresh clothes...

≠ downstairs

ADV : ADV after v

2.

If something or someone is upstairs in a building, they are on a floor that is higher than the ground floor.

The restaurant is upstairs and consists of a large, open room...

The boys are curled asleep in the small bedroom upstairs.

≠ downstairs

ADV : be ADV , n ADV

3.

An upstairs room or object is situated on a floor of a building that is higher than the ground floor.

Marsani moved into the upstairs apartment.

...an upstairs balcony.

ADJ : ADJ n

4.

The upstairs of a building is the floor or floors that are higher than the ground floor.

Frances invited them to occupy the upstairs of her home.

≠ downstairs

N-SING : the N

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