downstairs

Formsfurther downstairs, farther downstairs, furthest downstairs, farthest downstairs

Formsfurther downstairs, farther downstairs, furthest downstairs, farthest downstairs

Pluraldownstairs

1. 1
   adverb

   To or toward a lower floor by going down the steps.

   The children raced downstairs on Christmas morning.

   Please bring the empty boxes downstairs to the garage.

   Similardown, below

   Oppositeupstairs

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2. 2
   adjective

   On the lower floor of a building.

   The downstairs bathroom is being repainted this week.

   We keep our boots in the downstairs closet by the door.

   Similarground-floor, lower

   Oppositeupstairs, upper

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3. 3
   noun

   The lower floor of a house, on the ground or below it.

   The downstairs floods every time it rains hard.

   They turned the downstairs into a small shop.

   Oppositeupstairs

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4. 4
   noun

   The part of a big house where the servants lived and worked.

   The whole downstairs was awake before dawn, lighting the fires.

   She started work in the downstairs as a kitchen maid at fourteen.

   Oppositeupstairs

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5. 5
   nounslangeuphemistic

   A polite or joking word for the private parts.

   He took a stray ball right in the downstairs during practice.

   She felt a strange ache in her downstairs and called the clinic.

   Similarprivates, crotch

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6. 6
   adverbslangeuphemistic

   On or near the private parts of the body.

   He got hit downstairs and dropped to his knees.

   She'd been feeling itchy downstairs for a couple of days.

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7. 7
   adverbfiguratively

   In hell, or going down to hell.

   Grandpa joked that all his old enemies had gone downstairs.

   The villain in the story was sent downstairs at the end.

   Oppositeupstairs

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