| Title | Upstairs | |||
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| Text | Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary up·stairs
DATE 1584
1. up the stairs : on or to a higher floor2. to or at a high altitude or higher position kicked upstairs to company management 3. in the head : intellectually a little slow upstairs — Tom Clancy
DATE 1782
: situated above the stairs especially on an upper flooran upstairs bedroom
DATE 1842
: the part of a building above the ground floor
English Etymology upstairs 1590s (adj.), from up + stairs (see stair). The noun is first attested 1872. Meaning "characteristic of upstairs life" (in private rooms of a household, as opposed to servants' quarters) is recorded from 1942. "He [Halifax] had said he had known many kicked down stairs, but he never knew any kicked up stairs before." [Gilbert Burnet, supplement to "History of My own Time," from his original memoirs, c.1697] Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ☞ upstairs up·stairs / 7Qp5steEz; NAmE -5sterz / adverb up the stairs; on or to a floor of a house or other building higher than the six that you are on 在(或向)楼上；在(或向)上一层: The cat belongs to the people who live upstairs. 这猫是楼上人家的。 I carried her bags upstairs. 我把她的包拿到楼上。 She went upstairs to get dressed. 她上楼换衣服去了。 OPP downstairs adjectiveup·stairs [only before noun] :an upstairs room 楼上的房间 IDIOMS ⇨ see kick v. noun[sing.]the floor or floors in a building that are above the ground floor 二楼；二楼以上各层；楼上: We've converted the upstairs into an office. 我们把楼上改成了办公室。 OPP downstairs
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: upstairs man upstairs I. \| ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ adverb Etymology: up (IV) + stairs, plural of stair 1. a. : up the stairs : to or on a higher floor or level b. : up into or up in the air; especially : to or at a high altitude < take a new fighter plane upstairs — Business Week > 2. : to or in a higher position; especially : to or in a technically or ostensibly higher position that is less desirable especially because of diminished authority < began organizing for victory by kicking the commander … upstairs to the viceroyalty — O.S.J.Gogarty > < quietly moved him upstairs to board chairman — Newsweek > 3. slang : in the head < she's all vacant upstairs — J.T.Farrell > II. adjective 1. also upstair \“\ a. : situated above the stairs especially on an upper floor < an upstairs room > b. : of or relating to the upper floors < an upstairs maid > 2. : placed at or occupying a higher level < skilled in upstairs politics — C.S.Bluemel > < the upstairs ultrahigh-frequency area allocated to television — Telephone Engineer & Management > III. \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun plural but singular or plural in construction : the part of a building that is above the ground floor |
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