upstairs
/ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/ adverb A2- Up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or level. · I’ll take my shoes and put them away the next time I go upstairs.· I hate the people who live upstairs, and I especially hate their piano.
- In the brain or mind. · After Joe did a hula dance on the kitchen table, his friends wondered if he didn’t have a lot going on upstairs.
- In heaven, especially with regard to where a deity might be found.
- In or to a higher matrix clause, as opposed to a lower embedded clause.
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And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.
On the way upstairs she pondered uneasily as to what she ought to do.
When Marilla went out that evening to bring the cows from the back pasture, Matthew, who had been hanging about the barns and watching, slipped into the house with the air of a burglar and crept upstairs.
But he had never been upstairs in his own house since the spring he helped Marilla paper the spare bedroom, and that was four years ago.
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