down the stairs

1. 1.

   on a floor below

   “the tenants live downstairs”

   Synonymsdownstairson a lower floorbelow

Questions about down the stairs

What does down the stairs mean?

down the stairs means "on a floor below".

What is another word for down the stairs?

Close synonyms include downstairs, on a lower floor, below. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is down the stairs a common word?

down the stairs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.