Definition of Down the stairs

1. Adverb. On a floor below. "The tenants live downstairs"

Exact synonyms: Below, Downstairs, On A Lower Floor
Antonyms: Upstairs

Lexicographical Neighbors of Down The Stairs

down payment
down payments
down promoter mutation
down quark
down quarks
down start
down style
down syndrome
down tack
down the banks
down the drain
down the hatch
down the line
down the road
down the road, not across the street
down the stairs (current term)
down the track
down the tube
down the tubes
down time
down to
down to a T
down to a fine art
down to a science
down to the short strokes
down to the wire
down town
down tube
down tubes
down under

Literary usage of Down the stairs

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

1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... our way down the stairs. Theodora was on my arm. I was afraid she might faint before we got her into the coach. Upon this the charming girl treated me ..."

2. Sketches of Debate in the First Senate of the United States, in 1789-90-91 by William Maclay, George Washington Harris (1880)
"As we came down the stairs, Doctor Johnson was by my side. Doctor, (said I,) I wish you would leave off using these side winds, and boldly, at once, ..."

3. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... which tumbled down the stairs, never resting till it came to the bottom ; then all the people, at the fall thereof, thought he was killed, but he, ..."

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