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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
downstairs
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
▪ He might read for a while but he would not come downstairs, would not hear anything if she were quiet.
▪ Alice had just come downstairs in her nightgown.
▪ Carolyn was cautious about the times when she came downstairs.
▪ They came downstairs dressed for work, for tennis, for church, for a ball.
▪ There's no need for you to come downstairs for breakfast.
▪ Alfred came downstairs, tumbled into his chair, and Inez jumped up and served him.
▪ I came downstairs and the place stank of unwashed bodies mixed with the smells of kippers being grilled and sausages fried.
▪ Kyle would come downstairs in the morning and order his parents to serve him breakfast.
creep
▪ Their twelve-year-old son had crept downstairs and listened at the door.
▪ Late in the night I got up and crept downstairs.
▪ At half-past six and still dark they crept downstairs and out into the street.
▪ He crept downstairs, hardly making any noise.
▪ As I crept downstairs, I could hear Mr Rochester in his room, walking up and down and sighing.
▪ As the afternoon drew to a close, Mildred crept downstairs and out into the darkening yard.
▪ I creep downstairs and roam pointlessly around.
▪ She crept downstairs, through the kitchen and out into the little back garden.
fall
▪ Even the bruise on his forehead, the one he'd got falling downstairs days ago, was throbbing again.
▪ At about 2 a.m. he had fallen downstairs and slumped in a heap by the front door.
▪ During his absence, Jennie fell downstairs while visiting friends in Somerset, breaking her ankle.
▪ If she fell downstairs, at least she would be unaware of what happened then.
▪ He apparently tripped over his cat and fell downstairs and will be out for six weeks.
get
▪ I'd got downstairs as far as the door that I'd come in through when I heard the upstairs door go.
▪ Have been very bad, and can hardly get downstairs to empty the bucket and fetch more tea.
▪ When he got downstairs he found an envelope from his dad, so he opened the envelope and took out the note.
▪ When we got downstairs, Frank, Charlie, and Eddie were waiting for us.
▪ When she got downstairs, there was no sound at all.
▪ When she got downstairs they were both waiting for her, so obviously waiting that she stopped dead and looked alarmed.
▪ By stepping on the edge of the carpet where it was thickest, Lily could get downstairs unheard.
▪ Besides, she is to be got downstairs, and how is that to be managed?
go
▪ Daffy was going downstairs and slipped on one of the steps.
▪ Does Raymond communicate with Della Guardia first, or does he go downstairs to address the faithful?
▪ She went downstairs, yelling, sobbing with mirth.
▪ Finally I went downstairs and sat in a chair with a book.
▪ I signed more pieces of paper and went downstairs to join the queue outside the clothing store.
▪ At dawn, he rose and went downstairs and ordered breakfast sent up.
▪ That was enough to stop him, and he went downstairs to his lonely bed.
▪ On the morning of the third day, I got up, dressed, and went downstairs for breakfast.
hurry
▪ Pull yourself together, she told herself, and hurried downstairs.
▪ I dumped a drawer or two, knocked over a lamp, and hurried downstairs.
▪ She hurried downstairs and saw Sam Morgan standing beside the van, smiling at her encouragingly.
▪ Once she'd finished in the bathroom, she hurried downstairs to collect her shawl.
▪ As he hurried downstairs he heard Buddie leave the house and Lady the bulldog barking excitedly in the yard.
▪ The dress really wasn't right, though. - Remembering the soufflé, she hurried downstairs.
▪ Anxious as she was about the neighbours, she couldn't help laughing as she hurried downstairs.
▪ She spun away from the mirror and hurried downstairs, forcing the curling tension aside.
run
▪ When they'd stuck up the paintings, which made the room less like a chalky concrete box, they ran downstairs.
▪ Finally I leapt out of bed, ran downstairs and out of the house.
▪ Flavia pulled on the clothes she had been about to change into and ran downstairs.
▪ He yelled at us when we ran downstairs, believing we would fall and break our necks and die on the landing.
▪ There was the sound of footsteps running downstairs and Jacqui rushed into his arms.
▪ She ran downstairs again, clutching her wicked New York paper-cutter.
▪ He read the label, then turned and ran downstairs three at a time.
▪ Then without a word he turned and ran downstairs.
wait
▪ Then you went up in the lift while the maid waited downstairs.
▪ We were still going slowly and painfully round the room when Estella brought in the relations who had been waiting downstairs.
walk
▪ As he walked downstairs, he read it a third time to make sure.
▪ Jack walked downstairs and went to the kitchen.
▪ They walked downstairs into a big room.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The washing machine is downstairs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He doesn't want to call Paul up from downstairs.
▪ He dressed and went downstairs with her.
▪ He ran downstairs and saw the storeroom was on fire.
▪ Her head throbbed in rhythm with her bruises, yet she'd hardly noticed any of it downstairs.
▪ Lois shook her head and whispered for Petey to go back downstairs.
▪ Some one coming would ring downstairs, or, more likely, call first.
▪ The long silences were often broken by the roar of bus engines and rumble of bus announcements downstairs.
▪ Then she goes back to sleep while I go downstairs to face the psycho killer who broke in.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
downstairs

downstair \downstair\, downstairs \downstairs\adj. on or of the lower floors of a building, especially the ground floor; as, the downstairs (or downstair phone; the house has no downstairs bathroom. Opposite of upstairs.

downstairs

downstairs \down"stairs\, adv. Down the stairs; to a lower floor; as, she headed downstairs as soon as she heard the horn.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
downstairs

1590s, from down (adv.) + stairs (see stair).

Wiktionary
downstairs

a. A floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies. adv. living, stepping, or coming down the stairs n. (context slang English) The genitalia

WordNet
downstairs

  1. adj. on or of lower floors of a building; "the downstairs (or downstair) phone" [syn: downstair] [ant: upstairs]

  2. adv. on a floor below; "the tenants live downstairs" [syn: down the stairs, on a lower floor, below] [ant: upstairs]

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Wikipedia
Downstairs (EP)

Downstairs is an EP by 311, which was recorded in Nick Hexum's basement in 1989, and is considered the band's first recording. It is an independent release without cover art. Almost nothing is known about this collectors item, and an original version of the EP is almost impossible to find. However, a copy of the EP can easily be found circulating in bootleg circles and tape trading communities. The Downstairs EP suffers from guitar so scratchy that the instrument produced an unintended grinding "ringing" sound so high-pitched that it distorted the sound of the tape upon recording. On this EP, "Right Now" is one of the songs most afflicted with the grinding, ringing guitar noise. Owners of original copies of the EP (not the bootleg version) report that the grinding, ringing guitar noise is in fact present on the original source material. This cassette is no longer sold anywhere.

In May 2010, 311 Fans re-released this cassette as a CD.

Downstairs

Downstairs may refer to:

  • Downstairs (film), a 1932 film starring John Gilbert
  • Downstairs (EP), an independent release by the band 311
Downstairs (film)

Downstairs is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film. It stars John Gilbert as a charming but self-serving chauffeur who wreaks havoc on his new employer's household, romancing and fleecing the women on the staff, and blackmailing the employer's wife. Gilbert had written the story in 1928 for a proposed silent film that was never made.

Producer Irving Thalberg revived the project in 1932 as a special Gilbert production. The actor was so jubilant about the opportunity that he sold his original story to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $1.

Usage examples of "downstairs".

And Jeremy, running downstairs, left dog, father and all to their proper destinies.

In the meantime, Alphonsine was to do her best to detain us downstairs if we should come back too soon, using her imagination to keep us busy for as long as possible.

Nanette said immediately that she would come downstairs with her sister, but Madame Orio answered that it was unnecessary, as they could lock themselves in their room.

Motioning Barfield to a chair, Tallam ordered the Ashanti to return downstairs.

Following Atlee downstairs, she stopped him near the telephone and took the telegrams from him, telling him that she would send them.

As Banks drove up the short gravel drive and pulled up, he noticed that there were lights showing in two of the downstairs windows, while the rest of the place was in darkness.

Steven Argent had just laid this matter in their hands, and gone downstairs to gather the remaining barons together for an impromptu council, and to announce that he had chosen Captains Kethol, Pirojil and Durine to investigate the murder of Baron Morray and Lady Mondegreen.

The building had once been a warehouse, but a Bashkir family had turned it into a club downstairs and a two-tiered restaurant upstairs.

Instead he walked past Tamara, who was in the act of unstoppering the Bessarabian Body Oil, and made his way downstairs.

Not seeing Weston around, The Shadow went downstairs to the billiard room.

It had a perfect bowfront window with two offices downstairs and a small apartment upstairs.

She called Branner up the stair and split his head and stuck the hatchet in his hand, and sent him downstairs to murder you.

In the evening, hearing someone talking in a loud voice to the servant in the downstairs hall, I went out to see who it was, and was surprised to find it was Borset, the butterman, who was both drunk and offensive.

Alayna picked up one of the dolls and placed it in a bedroom in the toy house, while Cailin rear-ranged some of the miniature furniture in the downstairs parlor.

When the household finally seemed quiet, he went back downstairs, unlocked the theater, and carried Camelia outside to the canyon.