英和和英

発音

• (General American) IPA: /daʊnˈstɛɹz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /daʊnˈstɛəz/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)z
• ハイフネーション: down‧stairs

形容詞

downstairs (not comparable)

1. Located on a lower floor.

   The kids sleep in the downstairs bedroom; we sleep in the upstairs one.

派生語

• upstairs-downstairs

副詞

downstairs (not comparable)

1. Down the stairs.

   I have to walk downstairs to leave the building.

   The lodger lives downstairs.

2. (figurative) In or to hell.
3. (slang, euphemistic) Regarding the genitalia.

   something wrong downstairs

名詞

downstairs (plural downstairs)

1. The lower floor of a house, at ground level, or sometimes below.

   We looked over the house; downstairs was spacious, but upstairs really cramped.

   1. In particular, especially historically, the servants’ quarters.

      The family tried to ignore gossip from downstairs.

      • 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.

2. (slang, euphemistic) The genitalia.

   The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs.

反意語

• upstairs

参照

• “downstairs, adv., adj., and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2022.