downstairs
adverb /daʊnˈstɛːz 
/
/1Down a flight of stairs: I tripped over the cat and fell downstairs...
- There was the sound of feet pounding on the stairs as they came downstairs.
- She believes Sophie lit a match in the upstairs bedroom where Sarah was sleeping, then ran downstairs when the match fell on the bed.
- This hurt more than when I fell downstairs and I thought that was bad!
1.1On or to a lower floor: we were waiting for you downstairs she called him downstairs...
- We will probably take down the wall downstairs after that and lay new floor and wallpaper downstairs before they come as well.
- It took me all of last night just to do my bedroom, and because I had to air the room after vacuuming, I had to sleep downstairs on the hard floor.
- I got to have a nosy around her bathroom and to admire her sanded floors downstairs.
adjective /ˈdaʊnstɛːz / [attributive]
/ [attributive]Situated downstairs: the downstairs loo...
- Tina's family had assisted her to construct a downstairs bathroom for him while Christopher was in hospital.
- The kitchen is fitted with units of Canadian maple and includes a four-ring Meile gas hob while the downstairs bathroom has a spa bath.
- Originally she intended to extend the back of the house in Stokes Croft to create a downstairs bedroom and bathroom for Kieran.
noun /daʊnˈstɛːz /
/The ground floor or lower floors of a building: the downstairs was hardly damaged at all...
- The fire spread across two ground floor rooms and caused 50 per cent fire damage to the downstairs.
- For years he lived with his brothers and sisters in one big room in the downstairs of the house, where they had only a small stove.
- I suspected that one reason the house had been on the market for so long was because nobody could imagine what to do with the downstairs.
