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down·stairs

downstairs

 
pronunciation:
daUn steIrz
parts of speech:
adverb, adjective, noun
part of speech: adverb
definition: When you go downstairs, you go to a floor below the floor you are on.
When my mom hurt her foot, she couldn't come downstairs to the kitchen, so we brought her food up to her room.
 
part of speech: adjective
definition: A downstairs thing is something that is on a lower floor.
On Saturday we cleaned all of the downstairs rooms.Guests always come to the downstairs entrance.
 
part of speech: noun
definition: The downstairs is the lower part of a building that has more than one floor.
They finished painting the downstairs of the house this afternoon. They will work upstairs next week.