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above stairs en · ADP

Pronunciation

  • /əˌbʌv ˈstɝs/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (archaic) Upstairs; in or on an upper floor.
    • She took him to a room above-stairs, and introduced him to a bed on which a magnified bolster, in yellow calico, figured as a counterpane. 1877 February, Henry James, Jr., chapter XIX, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, →OCLC, page 334:
    • He was found above-stairs in an empty room, searching the floor for something. 1901, M. P. Shiel, The Lord of the Sea:
    • The Phyſician now arrived, and began to enquire of the two Diſputants, how we all did above Stairs? 'In a miſerable Way,' anſwered Thwackum. 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing Matter Rather Natural than Pleasing”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 183:
  2. (UK, historical) In or pertaining to the part of a large house, typically the above-ground rooms, in which the owning family lives, contrasted with below stairs where the servants are accommodated.

Forms

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above-stairs alternative lexicographic
abovestairs alternative lexicographic

Translations (1)

nl op de verdieping hoger (on an upper floor)

above stairs en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /əˌbʌv ˈstɝs/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) The part of a building above the ground level.