up the stairs

1. 1.

   on a floor above

   “they lived upstairs”

   Synonymsupstairson a higher floor

Questions about up the stairs

What does up the stairs mean?

up the stairs means "on a floor above".

What is another word for up the stairs?

Close synonyms include upstairs, on a higher floor. 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 up the stairs a common word?

up 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.