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upstairs adverb 1 up the stairs; to or on an upper floor or floors of a house, etc. 2 colloq to or in a senior or more senior position. 3 colloq mentally; in the head. adj (also upstair) on or relating to an upper floor or floors. noun 1 an upper floor or the upper floors of a building, especially the part of a house above the ground floor. 2 chiefly historical a the upper floors of a house, as opposed to the servants' quarters; b the occupants, usually the householder and their family, of this part of a house.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c.