Definition of Downstair

1. Adjective. On or of lower floors of a building. "The downstairs (or downstair) phone"

Exact synonyms: Downstairs
Similar to: Ground-floor
Antonyms: Upstairs

Definition of Downstair

1. Adjective. (dated) downstairs ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Downstair

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Downstair

downsizings
downslide
downslides
downslope
downslopes
downsloping
downslur
downslurs
downsome
downspin
downspins
downspout
downspouts
downstage
downstages
downstair
downstate
downstater
downstaters
downstates
downsteepy
downstep
downsteps
downstream
downstream processing
downstroke
downstrokes
downstroy
downstroyed

Literary usage of Downstair

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1902)
"The whole company then came downstair and reoccupied the platform. The procession was GASPAR CUSACHS, Chairman Museum Committee. headed by a band of music ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... noblemen there would go up- Í stairs to the emperor before him, would not ' fro up till the emperor had ordered those two men to be dragged downstair«, ..."

3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... his mamma and sister came downstair- from Charlotte's nursery, and brought the dear boy's conversar: '- to an end. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"Phoebe Smith and her husband Sam, lived in one of the downstair rooms. At one time of her life Phoebe kept a little dame's school on the Green. ..."

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