upstairs

English

Etymology

up- +‎ stair +‎ -s

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/, /ˈʌpˌstɛɹz/
• IPA^(key): /ˌʌpˈstɛəz/, /ˈʌpˌstɛəz/
• Hyphenation: up‧stairs

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z

Adjective

upstairs (comparative further upstairs, superlative furthest upstairs)

1. Located on a higher floor or level of a building.

   They can sleep in the upstairs bedroom.

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

   That fastball was upstairs for a ball.

Translations

located on a higher floor of a building

• Greek:

  Ancient: ὑπερῷος (huperôios)

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• Ukrainian: ве́рхній по́верх (vérxnij póverx)

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.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Marsha, let’s go upstairs!

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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.

3. (informal) In heaven, especially with regard to where a deity might be found.

Antonyms

• downstairs

Translations

up the stairs; on a higher floor or level

• Belarusian: (direction) наве́рх (navjérx), уве́рх (uvjérx), ўверх (ŭvjerx); (location) наве́рсе (navjérsje), уве́рсе (uvjérsje), ўве́рсе (ŭvjérsje)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 樓上／楼上 (zh) (lóushàng), 楼上 (zh) (lóushàng)

• Dutch: boven (nl)
• French: en haut (fr)
• German: treppauf (de), oben (de), nach oben (where to), herauf (de)
• Greek: πάνω (el) (páno)
• Hungarian: odafönt (hu), odafent (hu), odafenn (hu)
• Indonesian: lantai atas

  Sundanese: tonggoh

• Italian: di sopra
• Japanese: 階上 (かいじょう, kaijō)
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• Korean: 위층에 (ko) (wicheung'e), 위층으로 (ko) (wicheung'euro) (where to)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Norman: à haut
• Polish: na górze (where); na górę (where to)
• Portuguese: em cima (pt)
• Russian: наверху́ (ru) (naverxú) (where), вверху́ (ru) (vverxú) (where), на ве́рхнем этаже́ (na vérxnem etažé) (where); наве́рх (ru) (navérx) (where to), вверх (ru) (vverx) (where to), на ве́рхний эта́ж (na vérxnij etáž) (where to)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: górjejce

• Spanish: arriba (es)
• Ukrainian: (location) вгорі́ (uk) (vhorí); (direction) вго́ру (uk) (vhóru)

Noun

upstairs (plural upstairs)

1. An upper storey.