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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upstairs
I.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
▪ He thought they had made coffee, and he could just remember coming upstairs.
▪ They come upstairs and sit around the breakfast table.
▪ Becky hadn't heard Nadine come upstairs yet.
▪ Jess has not yet come upstairs.
▪ Then one day I came upstairs and caught her with her hand on my doorknob.
▪ He waited until Lois came upstairs for her little afternoon nap.
▪ Ruthven was placed in the chamber next to ours and came upstairs just after us.
▪ It was a little after two when Jim came upstairs, and Karen knew he would be tired this morning.
get
▪ The minute he got upstairs he shut his door and examined the leg minutely, but he gave up in the end.
▪ The first change came when he got upstairs and found Firebug rolling under the thick comforter with some one.
▪ But when he got upstairs and looked in his wardrobe the leg had gone.
▪ When Jane got upstairs the office they were using was jammed with people and cameras and equipment.
▪ But at night he couldn't wait to get upstairs, sometimes dragging Kate by the wrists in a steel grip.
▪ So I thought, I've got to get upstairs and find something, some means.
go
▪ She saw Vincent's father as he went upstairs to confront his son.
▪ Jen went upstairs to read her e-mail.
▪ He had left Marler in the bar, saying he was going upstairs for a shower.
▪ Dunne excused himself, said good night to Cassidy, nodded to the Gallaghers, and went upstairs.
▪ He was going upstairs for his siesta.
▪ Then he went upstairs, said goodnight to Dooley and took a hot shower.
▪ He did not go upstairs, but he did ring the 110 emergency number and ask for the police.
▪ I went upstairs, undressed, and got into bed.
live
▪ We live downstairs and there's an old lady called Mrs Parker who lives upstairs.
▪ I.C.B. was interested in our neighbours - particularly a large family that lived upstairs at the time.
run
▪ Fluid took up air space ... you never saw anyone with emphysema run upstairs.
▪ They run upstairs and push past the uniformed policeman guarding the door of the apartment.
▪ They ate steak pudding with exceptional appetite and, when everything was cleared away, Melanie ran upstairs to comb her hair.
▪ She ran upstairs and found her mother in the doorway glaring back into her bedroom.
▪ He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry and ran upstairs and into the study.
▪ Norm turned without a word and ran upstairs.
▪ We ran upstairs, knocking aside startled servants.
▪ Quickly, she picked up the key, locked the door, and ran upstairs to be alone in her room.
walk
▪ She walked upstairs and changed quickly, slipping on a light flowered sundress in bold colours and her flat sandals.
▪ After the crowd has thinned, after the little girls have been dragged off by their parents, Jess walks upstairs.
▪ Spike turns and walks upstairs proudly.
▪ He crossed the lobby and walked upstairs to the mezzanine where he found a bar with a view of the doors.
▪ Then I walked upstairs to the dressing-rooms.
▪ The boy walked upstairs on the Stairway backward, singing.
▪ As they walked upstairs, there was a bright flash of lightning outside, followed by loud thunder.
▪ They walk upstairs to the coffee counter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kick sb upstairs
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Don't go upstairs - Mom's still getting dressed.
▪ Don't you think the woman upstairs is kind of strange?
▪ Flora watched Mrs Brown staggering upstairs with a heavy tray.
▪ Lucy came rushing upstairs after her sister.
▪ My office is upstairs on the right.
▪ The bathroom is upstairs on your left.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I picked up the phone when Nyrene was upstairs.
▪ I ran into the house and upstairs into Mrs Goreng's dressing-room, which commanded the best view.
▪ I went upstairs, undressed, and got into bed.
▪ Or you can stay upstairs in your apartment and the same thing will be true.
▪ Other members of their families were upstairs dancing, and afterwards they all walked home in a group.
▪ Relaxing upstairs in a warm bath, he suddenly realized he was not unwinding in just any old bathroom.
▪ The children had been taken upstairs.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
room
▪ Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit.
▪ Thérèse cried: I was just going to do his room upstairs.
▪ He stayed there, in a room upstairs, and sometimes I slept in a room downstairs.
▪ When morning came, nobody in that room upstairs would answer their calls, so they were forced to break in.
▪ My Maria was in a small bed in a cold room upstairs, coughing badly.
▪ Greta Ross was painting in her room upstairs.
▪ They made the girl go back to Baskerville Hall with them, and locked her in a room upstairs.
way
▪ Henry paused on his way upstairs.
▪ And on your way upstairs, don't forget the bannisters and those tricky areas in between the rails on your staircase.
▪ Of course, we hardly needed to say, as we made our way upstairs, that we were both nervous wrecks.
▪ Quickly, Craig made his way upstairs to his brother's room.
▪ Once inside, we joined the crowd on their way upstairs to the gallery.
▪ Then she smiles, nods me in, and leads the way upstairs.
▪ At 4am armed men came into my house forcing their way upstairs to my bedroom.
▪ With a flash of yellowing teeth, a shake of henna-dyed curls, she sent Claudel on his way upstairs.
window
▪ Anne waved her off, watching, nervous and apprehensive, from the upstairs window.
▪ Parker slept and ate at an upstairs window.
▪ Finally Rezia throws the keys down from an upstairs window.
▪ Flames were now shooting skyward, and the upstairs windows showed a red glow.
▪ Adèle and I watched from an upstairs window as the carriages arrived.
▪ Paint was flaking from door and window frames, cracked glass in an upstairs window was held together with paste and brown paper.
▪ No. 2's fitted on to half the back of the house, leaving a downstairs and an upstairs window free.
▪ Its traditional upstairs windows are now uncurtained and uninhabited, two bars at street level its only function.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The old man upstairs decided that you and I would share this cell.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upstairs

Upstairs \Up*stairs"\, adv. Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

Upstairs

Upstairs \Up"stairs`\, a. Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
upstairs

1590s, from up (adv.) + stairs (see stair). As an adjective from 1782. The noun is first attested 1872. Adjectival meaning "characteristic of upstairs life" (in private rooms of a household, as opposed to servants' quarters) is recorded from 1942.\n\nHe [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]

Wiktionary
upstairs

a. 1 located higher up a building. 2 (context baseball English) a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone adv. 1 Up the stairs; on a higher floor or level. 2 (context colloquial English) In the brain. 3 (context colloquial English) In heaven, or any other place where a deity might be found.

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WordNet
upstairs

  1. adj. on or of upper floors of a building; "the upstairs maid"; "an upstairs room" [syn: upstair] [ant: downstairs]

  2. adv. on a floor above; "they lived upstairs" [syn: up the stairs, on a higher floor] [ant: downstairs]

  3. with respect to the mind; "she's a bit weak upstairs" [syn: in the head, in the mind]

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Wikipedia
Upstairs (album)

Clean is the third studio album by the contemporary worship duo Shane & Shane. The album was released on May 18, 2004 by Inpop Records label, and the producers on the effort is Will Hunt and Shane & Shane.

Usage examples of "upstairs".

Barnboard and half-portion of a barn door in the small bedroom upstairs, on the south side, was a happy afterthought, stumbled upon along the eastern seaboard on a buying trip.

He would wander upstairs, Alan knew, to his pitch-black, book-strewn bedroom, where he would lie on his elegant four-poster until the fragment of another chapter came to him.

Retreating hastily upstairs, Alec found his new bedchamber brightly illuminated.

I went downstairs, locked the house, turned off the lights, and came back upstairs to where Amrita was waiting in bed.

I went upstairs, she following, and I began to undress, apologizing for doing so before her.

Titus headed for the kitchen and some minutes later crept across the reception area on his way upstairs, carrying a large ashet on which lay the carcass of the goose.

Well, dragging Baldric upstairs to provide verse was absolutely out of the question.

Cimarus and Cletia had remained upstairs on guard over Balin and the other circle.

Evidently all the Bander kin from upstairs and down have come to fill it full, and every window of it has eyes on this stairway.

The beeper went off while I was still a few blocks away from my apartment, and when I glanced down and noted that the number on the lighted display was unfamiliar, I decided to wait until I got upstairs to return the call.

I went in, and the pastrycook told me that the house belonged to him, and his pretty wife, who was suckling a baby, begged me to come upstairs and see the room.

He told me very politely that his excellence begged me to step upstairs.

So after being perfectly outmaneuvered by committee and bumped upstairs to Commander of the new Starflight Agency, there was nothing left for him except bitching to Oscar and Anna about losing crucial people at critical times because they were needed to establish a duplicate facility at High Angel.

There was no sign of Andrew, or of Bitten, but from upstairs came the mournful adagio Bitten had played this morning.

Space, off Carnaby Street, that was done out like a spaceship, the doors to the sound booths were like airlocks and all the speakers were housed in swoopy blobby cabinets that looked like they were in the middle of a flashback, and there was this other very weird studio called ADR round the back of Kings Cross where there was a stream running half-way up the walls, all the seating was made out of the boots of cars, Minis converted into couches, and you got upstairs to the recording suites through a door opening out of a large tree in the corner of the reception.