(prep.) Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
(prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.
(prep.) Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.
(adv.) In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.
(adv.) On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.
(adv.) In hell, or the regions of the dead.
(adv.) In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.
(adv.) In some part or page following.
Example Sentences:
Downstairs
Definition:
(adv.) Down the stairs; to a lower floor.
(a.) Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’ve got it downstairs on tape.” We followed her to the TV room.
(2) You want to explore the darker things in life – death is a part of life, sadness is a part of life - but we don’t ever want to be morose.” Later on, Phil comes back downstairs.
(3) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
(4) She charges £65 a week for the downstairs room in the four-bedroom bungalow she shares with her sister.
(5) Five feet of water filled his kitchen and downstairs in the building that also houses his architectural practice, Red Raven Design.
(6) Our attitude was like Mr T and Rocky downstairs in the basement listening to a radio with a hanger sticking out of it doing push-ups.
(7) Rather than open downstairs and piss off the council, I decided to take it more slowly,” he says.
(8) Downstairs in the shopping centre I find Blossom and Nick, a rather eccentric pair who met 12 years ago in a queue for The Wright Stuff and quickly became engaged.
(9) "We heard the commotion downstairs, but they weren't the kind of family to scream and yell," she says.
(10) "We are currently repainting the flat in anticipation of great guests, new members of the extended family and anyone else we can get to flog the tat from Dad's shop downstairs.
(11) In my locker downstairs, my (Elizabeth David-approved) lunchtime sandwich of prosciutto and brie patiently awaited my return, but even so, it was a dispiriting business.
(12) As Petra, another member of the team, finishes mopping the floors, and Andrew, the shift manager, cashes up the tills in the office downstairs, I slump on to a bar stool, knackered.
(13) When his best man sent an invite on Facebook, he assumed that everyone had seen it and we ended up with that panic phone call, a sprint downstairs and a mad dash (all within legal speed limits, of course) down the M3.
(14) I had always been a big Romola Garai fan, now I was a diehard groupie, as were my friends, everyone tweeting about how much they loved this woman with the downstairs wound, whether they knew who she was or not.
(15) Mum came downstairs and asked me what was wrong – and it all came out – literally.
(16) It was found a significant statistical difference (p < 0.05) between the two groups concerning the age of evaluation, beginning of symptoms, difficulty in walking, running, climbing and going downstairs, frequent falling down, support to walk, localized muscle pain, stopping climb stairs, and inability to walk.
(17) The BBC1 drama – penned by Cranford and Upstairs, Downstairs writer Heidi Thomas – will delve into tales of life and midwifery in London's East End in the 1950s.
(18) On the day she died I came downstairs and she couldn’t breathe properly so I phoned the ambulance, who said if she gets worse call us back.
(19) The drawing-room downstairs is known as Mrs O'Shea's room.
(20) He explains that, as a resident of the first mezzanine, I am not permitted to walk downstairs and potentially bother the A-list.