1. below stairs - Adjective
2. below stairs - Phrase
(dated) On a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; below the main floor of a multi-floor building.
Synonym: downstairs
Antonyms: above stairs, upstairs
(UK, historical) In or pertaining to the lowest levels of a large house where the house staff work and are accommodated, contrasted with above stairs where the owning family reside.
(by extension) Common, vulgar.
(UK, historical, as noun) The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.
below-stairs (not comparable)
Alternative form of below stairs.
below-stairs