Definition of downstairs
: down the stairs : on or to a lower floor
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Examples of downstairs in a Sentence
He ran downstairs to answer the door.
He lives downstairs from us.
“Where are the kids?” “They're downstairs.”
Recent Examples of downstairs from the Web
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About 15 minutes later the stepfather found the boy gasping for air and moved him to another bedroom before returning downstairs.
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As the family makes its way downstairs to raise Charlie’s spirit, the camera slowly tracks up an art piece that has not yet received much attention.
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All three systems have a single node plugged in at the router closet, a second node plugged in at the living room TV island, and a third node downstairs on the back wall of the den.
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Cameras followed him downstairs to the finished basement, which extends the full length of the 8,500-square-foot mansion.
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Kennedy walked downstairs and decided to go through a hotel kitchen and meet with reporters waiting on the other side.
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In the new design, children and teens will both have space downstairs off Fifth Avenue.
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Go upstairs to the office, pay, get your ticket, and go back downstairs where the oyster crew will bag your bulk order, often taken from the bay same day, and give you crushed ice upon request.
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The interior looks remarkably close to being finished, with 10,000 seats downstairs and 6,000 upstairs, the opposite of the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
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First Known Use of downstairs
1596
Definition of downstairs
: situated on the main, lower, or ground floor of a building
Examples of downstairs in a Sentence
There are five downstairs rooms.
Recent Examples of downstairs from the Web
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Police indicated that the home’s downstairs entrance door and the second-floor apartment door were kicked in.
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She was forced to get on all fours, wincing and cursing, to descend a spiral staircase to the downstairs bedroom.
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As firefighters descended down several flights of stairs toward the beach, the began encountering more intense smoke, and eventually found that the fire was coming from a clothes dryer adjacent to a downstairs bedroom.
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On the night of the murders, Daniel London heard the the gunshots that killed his parents from a downstairs bedroom in their home.
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The victim was able to escape when the assailants left the apartment to confront a downstairs neighbor who had called police to complain about noise.
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At the beginning of the event, there was a short yoga class in the downstairs studio.
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The Alumni Club will be bigger than the Varsity Club, featuring 16 taps compared to the Varsity's 6, a downstairs area for overflow seating and party rentals, and a similar but slightly larger menu.
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Lounging in the downstairs area of New York City's SOBs, Smollett, clad in a black hoodie, isn't thinking too deeply about perfection on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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First Known Use of downstairs
1819
First Known Use of downstairs
1843
DOWNSTAIRS Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of downstairs for English Language Learners
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: on or to a lower floor of a building
Definition of downstairs for English Language Learners
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: located on a lower, main, or first floor of a building
DOWNSTAIRS Defined for Kids
Definition of downstairs for Students
: down the stairs : on or to a lower floor
- The children are playing downstairs.
Definition of downstairs for Students
: situated on a lower floor or on the main or first floor
- the downstairs bathroom
Definition of downstairs for Students
: the lower floor of a building
The downstairs has been refinished.
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