Adjective
downstairs (not comparable)
- Located on a lower floor.
The kids sleep in the downstairs bedroom, we sleep in the upstairs one.
Translations
downstairs (adjective); a floor lower than the current one
Adverb
downstairs (not comparable)
- Down the stairs.
I have to walk downstairs to leave the building.
The lodger lives downstairs.
- (figurative) In or to hell.
- (slang, euphemistic) Regarding the genitalia.
something wrong downstairs
Translations
downstairs (adverb)
- Bulgarian: до́лу (dólu), надо́лу (nadólu)
- Catalan: a baix (ca), escala avall (where to)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 樓下/楼下 (zh) (lóuxià)
- Dutch: beneden (nl)
- Esperanto: subŝtupare, malsupre
- French: au-dessous (fr), en bas (fr)
- German: unten (de), treppab (de), treppabwärts, nach unten
- Hungarian: lent (hu), lenn (hu), (on the ground floor [UK] or first floor [US]) a földszinten
- Indonesian: lantai bawah
- Irish: thíos an staighre (location), síos an staighre (direction)
- Italian: giù (it), di sotto
- Japanese: 階下 (ja) (かいか, kaika)
- Korean: 아래층에 (ko) (araecheung'e), 아래층으로 (ko) (araecheung'euro) (where to)
- Latvian: lejup, lejā, apakšējā stāvā
- Neapolitan: abbascio
- Norman: à bas
- Old English: niþre (where), niþer (where to)
- Persian: طبقهٔ پایین (fa) (tabaqe-ye pâyîn)
- Polish: na dole (pl) (where), na dół (where to)
- Portuguese: embaixo (pt) (Brazil)
- Russian: внизу́ (ru) (vnizú) (where), на ни́жнем этаже́ (na nížnem etažé) (where); вниз (ru) (vniz) (where to), на ни́жний эта́ж (na nížnij etáž) (where to)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: dołojce
- Spanish: abajo (es)
- Sundanese: landeh
- Volapük: dono (vo)
- Welsh: lawr llawr (South), i lawr y staer (South), i lawr y grisiau (North)
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Noun
downstairs (plural downstairs)
- 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.
- (slang, euphemistic) The genitalia.
The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs.