downstairs

down- +‎ stair +‎ -s

• (General American) IPA^(key): /daʊnˈstɛɹz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daʊnˈstɛəz/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
• Hyphenation: down‧stairs

downstairs (not comparable)

1. Located on a lower floor.

   The kids sleep in the downstairs bedroom, we sleep in the upstairs one.

• upstairs-downstairs

downstairs (not comparable)

1. Down the stairs.

   I have to walk downstairs to leave the building.

   The lodger lives downstairs.

2. (figurative) In or to hell.
3. (slang, euphemistic) Regarding the genitalia.

   something wrong downstairs

downstairs (plural downstairs)

1. The lower floor of a house, at ground level; especially the servants’ quarters.
   • 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:

     Now the two of them rattled around in the old house, even with his office and small clinic sharing the downstairs with the kitchen, parlor, and dining room.

2. (slang, euphemistic) The genitalia.

   The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs.

• upstairs

• “downstairs, adv., adj., and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022.