DOWN THE STAIRS

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I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On a floor below

Example:

the tenants live downstairs

Synonyms:

below; down the stairs; downstairs; on a lower floor

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Adverbs

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Context examples:

With a stately gravity, he, with the lamp, preceded me down the stairs and along the hall.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

With those words he took her up in his arms; and, with the veiled face lying on his bosom, and addressed towards his own, carried her, motionless and unconscious, down the stairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She passed down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see what passed in the hall beneath.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)