downstairs

Speech parts

1. downstairs - Noun

2. downstairs - Adjective

3. downstairs - Adverb

Meaning

Down the stairs; to a lower floor.

Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

below downstair down the stairs on a lower floor infra under down less level low lower ground hold nether bottom
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Antonyms

upstairs above roof atop cheerful mezzanine
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Examples

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. Logan Pearsall Smith

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love. Noël Coward

Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs. Robert A. Heinlein

...I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me. Sylvia Plath

It's quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it. Terry Pratchett

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. Robert Benchley

Close letter words and terms

downstage downstaging downstair downstat downstate downstater