upstairs

1. 1.

   on or of upper floors of a building

   “the upstairs maid”

   “an upstairs room”

   Synonymsupstair

   Antonymsdownstairs

Other forms of upstairs

plural

upstairses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about upstairs

What does upstairs mean?

upstairs means "on a floor above". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in upstairs?

upstairs has 2 syllables: up-stairs. The stress falls on "stairs". In IPA it is /əpˈstɛɹz/.

What is another word for upstairs?

Close synonyms include up the stairs, on a higher floor, upstair. 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.

What is the opposite of upstairs?

The recorded antonyms are downstairs, downstairs.

Is upstairs a common word?

upstairs is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with upstairs?

3 words rhyme with upstairs. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.