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upstairs en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɐpsteːz/ (Australia)
  • /ɐpˈsteəz/ (New-Zealand) without the cheer–chair merger
  • /ˈʊpˌstɛːz/ (Northern-England)
  • /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/ (General-American)
  • /ˌʊpˈstɛːz/ (Northern-England)
  • /ˈʌpˌsteɹz/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈʌpˌstɛəz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɐpˌsteəz/ (New-Zealand) without the cheer–chair merger
  • /ʌpˈsteɹz/ (Scotland)
  • /ɐpˈsteːz/ (Australia)
  • /ˈʌpˌstɛɹz/ (General-American)
  • /ɐpˈstiəz/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈɐpˌstiəz/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
  • /ʊpˈstɜː(ɹ)z/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
  • /ˌʌpˈstɛəz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʊpˌstɜː(ɹ)z/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger

Etymology

Etymology tree English up- Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti Proto-Germanic *stīganą Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *staigijaną Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Germanic *-raz Proto-Germanic *staigraz Proto-Germanic *staigriz Proto-West Germanic *staigri Old English stǣġer Middle English steire English stair English -s English upstairs From up- + stair + -s.

Meanings

  1. Located on a higher floor or level of a building.
    • We rent out the upstairs bedroom to a student.
  2. (informal) Pertaining to a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone.
    • That fastball was upstairs for a ball.
  3. Originating in or associated with a higher matrix clause, as opposed to a lower embedded clause.
    • Weaker (tolerant) quantificational values (some and many, sometimes and often) and stronger values (all, always) rule out any lower-clause reading for upstairs negation in the same contexts. 1989, Laurence R. Horn, chapter 5, in A Natural History of Negation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 327:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
farthest upstairs Degree=Sup lexicographic
furthest upstairs Degree=Sup lexicographic
farther upstairs Degree=Cmp lexicographic
up-stairs alternative, archaic lexicographic
up stairs alternative, archaic lexicographic
further upstairs Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

upstairs-downstairs

Translations (10)

bg горе (located on a higher floor of a building) · hu emeleti (located on a higher floor of a building) · fr en haut (located on a higher floor of a building) · hu fenti (located on a higher floor of a building) · fa طبقهٔ بالا (located on a higher floor of a building) · pl na górze (located on a higher floor of a building) · eo superŝtupara (located on a higher floor of a building) · uk ве́рхній по́верх (located on a higher floor of a building) · cic aba' (located on a higher floor of a building) · grc ὑπερῷος (located on a higher floor of a building)

upstairs en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɐpsteːz/ (Australia)
  • /ɐpˈsteəz/ (New-Zealand) without the cheer–chair merger
  • /ˈʊpˌstɛːz/ (Northern-England)
  • /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/ (General-American)
  • /ˌʊpˈstɛːz/ (Northern-England)
  • /ˈʌpˌsteɹz/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈʌpˌstɛəz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɐpˌsteəz/ (New-Zealand) without the cheer–chair merger
  • /ʌpˈsteɹz/ (Scotland)
  • /ɐpˈsteːz/ (Australia)
  • /ˈʌpˌstɛɹz/ (General-American)
  • /ɐpˈstiəz/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈɐpˌstiəz/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
  • /ʊpˈstɜː(ɹ)z/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
  • /ˌʌpˈstɛəz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʊpˌstɜː(ɹ)z/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger

Etymology

Etymology tree English up- Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti Proto-Germanic *stīganą Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *staigijaną Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Germanic *-raz Proto-Germanic *staigraz Proto-Germanic *staigriz Proto-West Germanic *staigri Old English stǣġer Middle English steire English stair English -s English upstairs From up- + stair + -s.

Meanings

  1. Up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level.
    • The woman upstairs told the people outside to stop reveling.
    • I hate the people who live upstairs, and I especially hate their piano.
    • I’ll take my shoes and put them away the next time I go upstairs.
    • On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game. 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
    • In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; […] 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:
    • There was more dancing and singing up stairs, more wit and conversation below; all were at liberty, and all stayed late; and all talked so much of the happiness they had enjoyed, that Lady Anne felt herself exceedingly tempted to give another party before the season finally closed. 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:
    • Marsha, let’s go upstairs! 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
  2. (informal) In the brain or mind.
    • After Joe did a hula dance on the kitchen table, his friends wondered if he didn’t have a lot going on upstairs.
    • I guess I'm just used to sailors / I think they got water on the brain / I think they got more water upstairs / Than they got sugar on a candy cane 1982 September 24, Prince, “Nasty Girl”, in Vanity 6, performed by Vanity 6, track 1:
  3. (informal) In heaven, especially with regard to where a deity might be found.
  4. In or to a higher matrix clause, as opposed to a lower embedded clause.
    • Consider first the derivation in which movement is not involved, namely the surface subject is base-generated in the matrix clause (Recall that it is possible in principle to base generate the subject upstairs, as we saw in Section 2). 2007, Tomohiro Fujii, “Cyclic chain reduction”, in Norbert Carver, Jairo Nunes, editors, The Copy Theory of Movement (Linguistik Aktuell; 107), Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, page 300:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
up-stairs alternative, archaic lexicographic
up stairs alternative, archaic lexicographic
farther upstairs Degree=Cmp lexicographic
farthest upstairs Degree=Sup lexicographic
further upstairs Degree=Cmp lexicographic
furthest upstairs Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

downstairs

Deriveds

Man Upstairs · go upstairs · check upstairs · kick upstairs · boot upstairs

Translations (60)

ru на ве́рхнем этаже́ (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ru вверх (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · pl na górze (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ckb سەرەوە (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · be ўверх (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · be наве́рх (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · cs nahoru (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · fi yläkertaan (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ang upp (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · de treppauf (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · cs nahoře (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ota یوقاری (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · cy lan lofft (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · yi אויבן (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · nl boven (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · uk наго́ру наве́рх (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · eo superŝtupare (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ang uppe (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · es arriba (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ko 위층에 (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · fr à l'étage (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · be уве́рх (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · de herauf (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · be ўве́рсе (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · be наве́рсе (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · su tonggoh (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ga suas an staighre (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · de nach oben (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · cmn 樓上 /楼上 (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · be уве́рсе (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · id lantai atas (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · yua kaʼanal (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · it di sopra (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ru вверху́ (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · hu odafönt (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · de oben (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ko 위층으로 (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · bg горе (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · fr en haut (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · cic aba' (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · uk наверху́ (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · nrf à haut (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · uk нагорі́ (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · pt em cima (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ru наверху́ (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · fi yläkerrassa (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ru наве́рх (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · dsb górjejce (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ja 階上 (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · cy i fyny'r grisiau (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · pl na górę (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · cy lan staer (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ga thuas an staighre (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ru на ве́рхний эта́ж (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · hu odafent (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · hu odafenn (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · el πάνω (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · ca dalt (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · bg на горния етаж (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level) · hu az emeleten (up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level)

upstairs en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɐpsteːz/ (Australia)
  • /ɐpˈsteəz/ (New-Zealand) without the cheer–chair merger
  • /ˈʊpˌstɛːz/ (Northern-England)
  • /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/ (General-American)
  • /ˌʊpˈstɛːz/ (Northern-England)
  • /ˈʌpˌsteɹz/ (Scotland)
  • /ˈʌpˌstɛəz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɐpˌsteəz/ (New-Zealand) without the cheer–chair merger
  • /ʌpˈsteɹz/ (Scotland)
  • /ɐpˈsteːz/ (Australia)
  • /ˈʌpˌstɛɹz/ (General-American)
  • /ɐpˈstiəz/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈɐpˌstiəz/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
  • /ʊpˈstɜː(ɹ)z/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
  • /ˌʌpˈstɛəz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈʊpˌstɜː(ɹ)z/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger

Etymology

Etymology tree English up- Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti Proto-Germanic *stīganą Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *staigijaną Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Germanic *-raz Proto-Germanic *staigraz Proto-Germanic *staigriz Proto-West Germanic *staigri Old English stǣġer Middle English steire English stair English -s English upstairs From up- + stair + -s.

Meanings

  1. An upper storey.
    • an upstairs bathroom
  2. (euphemistic, slang) A woman's breasts.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
up stairs alternative, archaic lexicographic
upstairs Number=Plur lexicographic
up-stairs alternative, archaic lexicographic