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Definition of Downstairs
1. Adjective. On or of lower floors of a building. "The downstairs (or downstair) phone"
2. Adverb. On a floor below. "The tenants live downstairs"
Definition of Downstairs
1. adv. Down the stairs; to a lower floor.
Definition of Downstairs
1. Adjective. A floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies. ¹
2. Adverb. living, stepping, or coming down the stairs ¹
3. Noun. (slang) The genitalia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Downstairs
1. downstair [n] - See also: downstair
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downstairs
Literary usage of Downstairs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1905)
"Walsh followed the applicant downstairs, and told him if he ever found him near
his house again he would kill him. The policeman then left the house, ..."
2. Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett by Sarah Orne Jewett (1911)
"As for me, I am much the same, getting back little by little to ordinary life,
but not downstairs yet, or equal to much that can be really called decent or ..."
3. Outing (1892)
"They each shook her hand by way of league and covenant, and she went downstairs
a sadder if not a wiser woman. CHAPTER XXIII. ..."
4. Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)
"said Trilby, and she ran downstairs, weeping. It was now very late. It soon became
evident that Little Billee was in extraordinarily high spirits—in an ..."
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