Adverb
upstairs (comparative further upstairs, superlative furthest upstairs)
- Up the stairs; on a higher floor or level.
I’ll take my shoes and put them away the next time I go upstairs.
I hate the people who live upstairs, and I especially hate their piano.
1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:There was more dancing and singing up stairs, more wit and conversation below; all were at liberty, and all stayed late; and all talked so much of the happiness they had enjoyed, that Lady Anne felt herself exceedingly tempted to give another party before the season finally closed.
1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; […]
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Marsha, let’s go upstairs!
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
- (informal) In the brain or mind.
After Joe did a hula dance on the kitchen table, his friends wondered if he didn’t have a lot going on upstairs.
- (informal) In heaven, especially with regard to where a deity might be found.
Translations
up the stairs; on a higher floor or level
- Belarusian: (direction) наве́рх (navjérx), уве́рх (uvjérx), ўверх (ŭvjerx); (location) наве́рсе (navjérsje), уве́рсе (uvjérsje), ўве́рсе (ŭvjérsje)
- Bulgarian: горе (bg) (gore), на горния етаж (na gornija etaž)
- Catalan: dalt (ca)
- Chickasaw: aba'
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 樓上/楼上 (zh) (lóushàng)
- Dutch: boven (nl)
- Esperanto: superŝtupare
- Finnish: yläkerrassa (location), yläkertaan (direction)
- French: en haut (fr), à l’étage (fr)
- German: treppauf (de), oben (de), nach oben (where to), herauf (de)
- Greek: πάνω (el) (páno)
- Hungarian: odafönt (hu), odafent (hu), odafenn (hu), az emeleten
- Indonesian: lantai atas
- Irish: suas an staighre (direction), thuas an staighre (location)
- Italian: di sopra
- Japanese: 階上 (ja) (かいじょう, kaijō)
- Korean: 위층에 (ko) (wicheung'e), 위층으로 (ko) (wicheung'euro) (where to)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سەرەوە (serewe)
- Norman: à haut
- Old English: uppe (where), upp (where to)
- Ottoman Turkish: یوقاری (yukarı)
- Polish: na górze (pl) (where); na górę (where to)
- Portuguese: em cima (pt)
- Russian: наверху́ (ru) (naverxú) (where), вверху́ (ru) (vverxú) (where), на ве́рхнем этаже́ (na vérxnem etažé) (where); наве́рх (ru) (navérx) (where to), вверх (ru) (vverx) (where to), на ве́рхний эта́ж (na vérxnij etáž) (where to)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: górjejce
- Spanish: arriba (es)
- Sundanese: tonggoh
- Ukrainian: (location) вгорі́ (uk) (vhorí); (direction) вго́ру (uk) (vhóru)
- Welsh: lan lofft (South), lan staer (South), i fyny'r grisiau (North)
- Yiddish: אויבן (oybn)
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