upstairs

English

Etymology

From up + stair + -s

Pronunciation

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Adverb

upstairs (comparative further upstairs, superlative furthest upstairs)

1. Up the stairs; on a higher floor or level.

   I'll take my shoes and put them away the next time I go upstairs.

   I hate the people who live upstairs, and I especially hate their piano.

2. (slang) In the brain.

   After Joe did a hula dance on the kitchen table, his friends wondered if he didn't have a lot going on upstairs.

Translations

up the stairs; on a higher floor or level

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 樓上 (cmn), 楼上 (cmn) (lóushàng)

• Dutch: boven (nl)
• French: en haut (fr)
• German: treppauf (de), oben (de), nach oben (de) (where to)
• Greek: πάνω (el) (páno)
• Italian: di sopra (it)
• Japanese: 階上 (ja) (かいじょう, gaijō)
• Jèrriais: à haut

• Korean: 위층에 (ko) (wicheung-e), 위층으로 (ko) (wicheung-euro) (where to)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سه‌ره‌وه‌ (ku) (sarawa)

• Polish: na górze (pl) (where); na górę (pl) (where to)
• Russian: наверху (ru) (naverxú) (where), вверху (ru) (vverxú) (where), на верхнем этаже (ru) (na vérxnem etažé) (where); наверх (ru) (navérx) (where to), вверх (ru) (vverx) (where to), на верхний этаж (ru) (na vérxnij etáž) (where to)
• Spanish: arriba (es)

Antonyms

• downstairs

Adjective

upstairs (comparative further upstairs, superlative furthest upstairs)

1. located higher up a building.

   They can sleep in the upstairs bedroom.

2. (baseball) a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone

   That fastball was upstairs for a ball.

Antonyms

• downstairs