downstairs

adjective further downstairs · farther downstairs · furthest downstairs · farthest downstairs

1. Located on a lower floor. The kids sleep in the downstairs bedroom; we sleep in the upstairs one.
2. Originating in or associated with a lower, embedded clause, as opposed to the matrix clause. In referring to the conditions under which an upstairs negation can be associated with the lower clause, rather than the conditions under which a downstairs negative can be raised, I have tacitly endorsed the semantic or pragmatic approach to the NRP, without having dispelled the problems posed by t

adverb further downstairs · farther downstairs · furthest downstairs · farthest downstairs

1. Down the stairs. I have to walk downstairs to leave the building.
2. figuratively In or to hell.
3. euphemistic, slang Regarding the genitalia. something wrong downstairs
4. In or to a lower, embedded clause, as opposed to the matrix clause. Given that all English speakers conventionally use verbs like think and suppose so as to transmit their negation downstairs, while only some speakers operate with the analogous convention for guess, and none do for hope, the distribution of polarity until follows accordingly: […]

noun downstairs

1. The lower floor of a house, at ground level, or sometimes below. We looked over the house; downstairs was spacious, but upstairs really cramped.
2. In particular, especially historically, the servants’ quarters. The family tried to ignore gossip from downstairs.
3. euphemistic, slang The genitalia. The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs.

Opposite: upstairs