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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: on or of lower floors of a building; "the downstairs (or downstair) phone" [syn: downstairs, downstair] [ant: upstair, upstairs] adv
1: on a floor below; "the tenants live downstairs" [syn: downstairs, down the stairs, on a lower floor, below] [ant: on a higher floor, up the stairs, upstairs]

Merriam Webster's

I. adverb Date: 1596 down the stairs ; on or to a lower floor II. adjective Date: 1819 situated on the main, lower, or ground floor of a building III. noun plural but singular or plural in construction Date: 1843 the lower floor of a building

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv., adj., & n. --adv. 1 down a flight of stairs. 2 to or on a lower floor. --adj. (also downstair) situated downstairs. --n. the lower floor.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Downstairs Down"stairs, adv. Down the stairs; to a lower floor. -- a. Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you go downstairs in a building, you go down a staircase towards the ground floor. Denise went downstairs and made some tea. ? upstairs ADV: ADV after v 2. If something or someone is downstairs in a building, they are on the ground floor or on a lower floor than you. The telephone was downstairs in the entrance hall... ? upstairs ADV: be ADV, n ADV 3. Downstairs means situated on the ground floor of a building or on a lower floor than you are. She repainted the downstairs rooms and closed off the second floor. ? upstairs ADJ: ADJ n 4. The downstairs of a building is its lower floor or floors. The downstairs of the two little houses had been entirely refashioned. ? upstairs N-SING: the N