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Definition of Downstair
1. Adjective. On or of lower floors of a building. "The downstairs (or downstair) phone"
Definition of Downstair
1. Adjective. (dated) downstairs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Downstair
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downstair
Literary usage of Downstair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1902)
"The whole company then came downstair and reoccupied the platform. The procession
was GASPAR CUSACHS, Chairman Museum Committee. headed by a band of music ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... noblemen there would go up- Í stairs to the emperor before him, would not '
fro up till the emperor had ordered those two men to be dragged downstair«, ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... his mamma and sister came downstair- from Charlotte's nursery, and brought
the dear boy's conversar: '- to an end. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"Phoebe Smith and her husband Sam, lived in one of the downstair rooms. At one
time of her life Phoebe kept a little dame's school on the Green. ..."
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