noun
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An upper storey.
adjective
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Located on a higher floor or level of a building.
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They can sleep in the upstairs bedroom.
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Pertaining to a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone.
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That fastball was upstairs for a ball.
adverb
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Up the stairs; on a higher floor or level.
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I hate the people who live upstairs, and I especially hate their piano.
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In the brain or mind.
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After Joe did a hula dance on the kitchen table, his friends wondered if he didn’t have a lot going on upstairs.
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In heaven, especially with regard to where a deity might be found.
Examples of upstairs in a Sentence
The upstairs bedroom would become an office.
They walked upstairs hand in hand.
There are three small rooms upstairs but we'll explain about them later.
I thought he could stay in one of the rooms upstairs at night – if you don't mind.
The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned away.
Easy as walking upstairs, almost.
This morning I took a bath, and when teacher came upstairs to comb my hair she told me some very sad news which made me unhappy all day.
There was no time for Cynthia to talk to her husband, who was busy serving breakfast to the late sleepers while she showed Maria, by hand communication, the upstairs chores of Bird Song.
Nice of Kris to abandon you upstairs like that.
And then, there was the magic room upstairs, where she had spent many hours playing as a child — and many hours dreaming as a teen.
I always knew when she wished me to bring her something, and I would run upstairs or anywhere else she indicated.
Suspecting it was a stowaway from one of the boxes, she took the broom upstairs, where most of the boxes were.
Felipa helped Carmen clean up the mess and get the children in bed while Alex went upstairs to finish some paperwork.
There was a ladies hairdresser upstairs at some time too.
You will go upstairs.
We have two stories, and he uses the litter box downstairs, but also has a place he uses upstairs.
A quiet investigation revealed all upstairs doors closed and the sound of snoring from the Dame Turnbull's room.
The children ran upstairs and Alex set out to check the bathroom for leaks.
And you'll tell us why you were so mournful upstairs.
This is great news, as you can enjoy your good ' knees up ', and then totter upstairs to your room!
Upstairs is more upmarket with a full a la carte menu.
Every landing was now noisy with servants, maids sped upstairs, flunkeys sped down, a butler waddled in a circle.
It is particularly wasteful to leave upstairs bedroom doors open all day during the heating season.
Staged on two levels, Heaven (upstairs) offered an almost ethereal quality of snow blinding whiteness.
When SB went upstairs to bed with Chris, I had a wiggle and giggle with BB.
Blue and white ornaments and ceramics fill niches and deep-set windowsills, and upstairs the bedrooms are co-ordinated in keeping with the theme.
In 1956, a small workroom was created upstairs at Bramley Hill to cater for a group of adults with Cerebral palsy.
On a sudden thought I ran upstairs before any one could stop me, to put on my idea of a company dress.
Fauntleroy is asleep upstairs, and Nancy is putting Lucy to bed.
Instantly the tempest subsided, and we went upstairs together.
This morning I happened to say, "Helen will go upstairs."
The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received from Masha, the lady's maid, the necessary report of how handsome the minister's son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time.
The first man that turns up--she forgets her father and everything else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike herself!
The doctor noticed Rostov coming upstairs.
Alpatych swayed his head and went upstairs.
One day she went quickly upstairs and found herself out of breath.
Unconsciously she immediately invented a reason for going down, and then, testing her strength, ran upstairs again, observing the result.
In the saloon, the noise of the raucous crowd drowned out the screams coming from upstairs.
Upstairs there 's the main refectory with its comprehensive menu.
There is a licensed bar in the venue, and another bar and restaurant upstairs.
The upstairs bathroom is a spacious room with a walk-in shower, WC, bidet and wash basin.
Nights found Rebecca sitting cross-legged on the floor inside the family parlor while little Barbara Anne wailed from upstairs.
George, by now, was in position at the sound deck, sprawled across the floor in the bay of the upstairs window.
The painted chamber Upstairs the tester bed is being reconstructed in the painted chamber.
Rafters restaurant, upstairs, is home to the door from the condemned cell that one formed part of Edinburgh 's old Tolbooth.
This is great news, as you can enjoy your good ' knees up ', and then totter upstairs to your room !
We were upstairs on wooden benches which was not terribly comfortable or atmospheric.
Smudge 's new hobbies include hiding and pouncing on the door mat, yowling for food and trying to sneak upstairs !
By all means, give your cat a second litter box to use upstairs.
The former maid's quarters upstairs is now a rental suite and the back sun porch is now the garden room (pictured at left).