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Upstairs Higher Floor Ground Building Adverb Staircase Changed

word upstairs
definition
adverb
If you go upstairs in a building, you go up a staircase towards a higher floor.
He went upstairs and changed into fresh clothes.
I walked upstairs and unlocked my front door.
If something or someone is upstairs in a building, they are on a floor that is higher than the ground floor.
The restaurant is upstairs and consists of a large, open room.
The boys are curled asleep in the small bedroom upstairs.
adjective
An upstairs room or object is situated on a floor of a building that is higher than the ground floor.
Marsani moved into the upstairs apartment.
...an upstairs balcony.
noun
The upstairs of a building is the floor or floors that are higher than the ground floor.
Together we went through the upstairs.
Frances invited them to occupy the upstairs of her home.
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