Upstairs

Definition: Upstairs

Upstairs

Adjective

1. On or of upper floors of a building; "the upstairs maid"; "an upstairs room".

Adverb

1. On a floor above; "they lived upstairs".

2. With respect to the mind; "she's a bit weak upstairs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "upstairs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Synonyms: Upstairs

Height

Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.

Crosswords: Upstairs

One day, when I have a gray beard and a few marbles rollin' around upstairs, that's when they'll let me out. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

I think he regifted, then he degifted, and now he's using an upstairs invite as a springboard to a Superbowl sex romp! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Hey, did you go to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College too? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

She's upstairs in my office for an extradition deposition. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie)

Let's understand this one thing: if you start harassing this woman, I'm going to take it upstairs. (Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man; writing credit: Dean Hargrove; Richard Levinson)

Upstairs before the night's too old (TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (Gonna Be Alright); performing artist: ROD STEWART)

Nobody upstairs gonna stomp and shout, (Little Miss Can't Be Wrong; performing artist: Spin Doctors)

I live upstairs from you (Luka; performing artist: Suzanne Vega)

She tried to take me upstairs for a ride. (HONKY TONK WOMAN; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Downstairs Upstairs (1971)

The Upstairs Room (1970)

Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)

The Man Upstairs (1958)

Upstairs and Down (1919)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Beethoven Lives Upstairs (reference)

• Downstairs, Upstairs (Elizabeth) (reference)

• Nicky Upstairs and Down (Puffin Easy-To-Read Level 1) (reference)

• Something Upstairs (reference)

• The Upstairs Room (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Upstairs, Downstairs vol. 5: The Bolter/A Perfect Stranger (reference)

• Upstairs Downstairs - The Fifth Season (reference)

• Beethoven Lives Upstairs (reference)

• Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete First Season (reference)

• Upstairs, Downstairs - The Complete Second Season (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Upstairs at Eric's (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Private dining-room of the White House, and the family sitting-room at the end of the long upstairs corridor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sign in upstairs hall of small hotel. Population of town: 749. West Carlton, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lille, Maine (vicinity). Acadian farmhouse. The house has two rooms, one upstairs and one downstairs. Credit: Library of Congress.

Upstairs laundry room in farmhouse optioned for wildlife area. Albany, County, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Schulstad children going upstairs to bed. Aberdeen, South Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Paul Vautrin, residence in Redding, Connecticut. Interior III, upstairs bedroom. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fire House, Old Deerfield, Massachusetts. Upstairs, Interior. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stony Brook Gardens, Stratford, Connecticut. Upstairs detail in two-story house C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Reynolds Bagley, Musgrove Plantation, residence on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Upstairs bunkroom I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He went upstairs again.

They have the windows open upstairs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Travel

Ghana

They also have a fancy restaurant upstairs with Continental specialties and Irish beef. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "upstairs": a bit weak upstairs ♦ go upstairs ♦ kick upstairs ♦ kicked upstairs ♦ upstairs in ♦ upstairs market. Additional references.

Beginning with "upstairs": upstairs-downstairs.

Afrikaans

bo (above, on top, over, overhead). (various references)

Albanian

sipër (above, aloft, over, overhead, supra, topside, up, upstair), lart (above, aloft, high, overhead, up, upward, upwards). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في أول ارتفاع, ‏في أول دور, ‏فوق (above, across, atop, before, on, on top of, onto, over, overhead, up, upon), ‏علوي (celestial, supernormal, upper), ‏الطابق العلوي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

горе (above, aloft, overhead, supra, up), в главата, нагоре (above, aloft, up, uphill), на горния етаж (overhead), на по-висока служба, по-горе (above, supra, thereinbefore), по-нагоре (up, upward, upwards). (various references)

Chinese 

在楼上. (various references)

Czech

v poschodí, nahoru (above, up, uphill, upward, upwards), nahoře (above, aloft, on high, overhead, up, upward, upwards), jsoucí nahoře, horní poschodí, hořejší (upper). (various references)

Danish

oven (above, on top, overhead). (various references)

Dutch

boven (above, more than, on top, over, overhead). (various references)

Esperanto

supre (above, on top, overhead), superŝtupare. (various references)

Faeroese

uppi (above, on top, overhead). (various references)

Farsi 

ساختمان فوقانی , دراشکوب بالا, بالاخانه (Balcony). (various references)

Finnish

yläpuolella (above, on top, overhead). (various references)

French

sur (upon), en haut (up), dessus (upper). (various references)

German

oben (above, ahead, at the head, at the top, at the top of, on the surface, on top, overhead, supra, top, up, up here, up north, up there, upstream), nach oben (above, up, uphill, upward, upwardly, upwards), oben gelegen, herauf (above, up, uphill, upward, upwards), Emporkömmlinge (upstarts). (various references)

Greek 

εισ το επάνω πάτωμα, επάνω πάτωμα, επάνω (about, aloft, on, up). (various references)

Hebrew 

במעל�" �"מ�"ר�'ות, בקומ�" �"עליו� �". (various references)

Hungarian

lépcsõn föl, emeleti (upstair), emeleten, alant (above, below, on top, overhead, underneath). (various references)

Indonesian

tingkat atas, ditingkat atas. (various references)

Irish

lastuas (above, on top, overhead). (various references)

Italian

di sopra (above, on top, over, overhead, upside). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

階上 (an upper floor), 二階 (second floor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にかい (second floor, twice), かいじょう (an upper floor, assembly hall, capitulation, circular, circulating letter, factorial, maritime, massive, meeting place, opening, the grounds). (various references)

Korean 

2층에. (various references)

Norwegian

ovenpå (above, on top, overhead), oppe (above, on top, overhead). (various references)

Papiamen

ariba (above, on, on top, over, overhead, up, uphill, upon, upwards). (various references)

Pig Latin

airsupstay

Polish

u góry, na górze. (various references)

Portuguese

paracima (overhead, up, uphill, upwards), em cima (above, aloft, atop, on the top, overhead, thereon, up, upon). (various references)

Romanian

sus pe scãri, situat la etajul superior, la etaj, etaj superior al unei clãdiri. (various references)

Russian 

вверх по лестнице, в верхнем этаже, наверху (above, aloft, atop, atop of, on top, overhead, up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

na gornjem spratu (overhead), mentalno (mentally), gore (above, aloft, atop, overhead, supra, up, worse). (various references)

Spanish

arriba (above, aloft, forward, halt, on top, over, overhead, up, up along, upstair). (various references)

Swahili

juu (about, above, on top, overhead). (various references)

Swedish

uppe (above, on top, overhead, up). (various references)

Tagalog

sa itaás (above, on top, overhead), sa ibábaw (above, on, on top, over, overhead, upon). (various references)

Turkish

yukarıda (above, afore, aloft, hereinabove, overhead, supra), kafadan (cephalic, head on), aklen, üst katta, üst katlar, üst kata, üst kat. (various references)

Ukrainian

що знаходиться нагорі (upstair), вгору (above, aloft, uphill), верхній поверх, нагорі (above, atop, over, overhead, up, uppermost). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lên tầng trên, ở trên gác, ở tầng trên lên gác, ở tầng trên. (various references)

super. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aurists, purists, rapists, upstair, upstirs.

-2 letters: aurist, pastis, purist, rapist, sirups, sistra, sitars, situps, spaits, spirts, sprats, sprits, spurts, stairs, stirps, straps, strips, stupas, sutras, tapirs, tarsus, tsuris, tussar, upstir.

-3 letters: airts, apsis, arsis, aspis, astir, atrip, auris, pairs, paris, parts, pasts, pitas, prats, praus, priss, pruta, puris, rasps, risus, rusts, saris, satis.

+2 letters: pasteurise, pluralists, rainspouts, spirituals, supinators.

+3 letters: authorships, manuscripts, pasteurised, pasteurises, pasteurizes, pasticheurs, peripatuses, puritanisms, pursuivants, septenarius, stipulators, subprimates, supergiants, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, suspiration, therapeusis, trapeziuses, usurpations.

+4 letters: curatorships, paintbrushes, parachutists, pasteurising, pasteurizers, postsurgical, reassumption, spiritualism, spiritualist, sporulations, superlatives, supernations, superplastic, superstation, suppurations, supremacists, suprematisms, suprematists, suspirations, transpicuous.

+5 letters: antipleasures, apiculturists, automorphisms, coauthorships, housepainters, laureateships, phosphaturias, reassumptions, specularities, spiritualisms, spiritualists, spiritualizes, spiritualness, spiritualties, supercabinets, supercautious, superloyalist, superpatriots, superstations, treasurership, triumphalisms, triumphalists.

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