"up stairs" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "further up stairs",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "furthest up stairs",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "further"
      },
      "expansion": "up stairs (comparative further up stairs, superlative furthest up stairs)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "upstairs"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Fanny Hill",
          "ref": "1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 176:",
          "text": "I ſtept up ſtairs into my own bed-chamber, with no other thought than of pulling off my hat, &c.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:",
          "text": "There was more dancing and singing up stairs, more wit and conversation below; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 161:",
          "text": "“He’s in the dining-room, sir, along with mistress. I’ll show you up stairs, if you please.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How Charles Nutter’s Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-box Were All Set Out for Him in the Small Parlour at the Mills; and How That Night Was Passed in the House by the Church-yard”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 137:",
          "text": "Perhaps ’twas the state in which the poor lady lay up stairs that helped to make them excited and frightened.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of upstairs."
      ],
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          "upstairs",
          "upstairs#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up stairs"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "further up stairs",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "furthest up stairs",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "further"
      },
      "expansion": "up stairs (comparative further up stairs, superlative furthest up stairs)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "upstairs"
        }
      ],
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Fanny Hill",
          "ref": "1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 176:",
          "text": "I ſtept up ſtairs into my own bed-chamber, with no other thought than of pulling off my hat, &c.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:",
          "text": "There was more dancing and singing up stairs, more wit and conversation below; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 161:",
          "text": "“He’s in the dining-room, sir, along with mistress. I’ll show you up stairs, if you please.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How Charles Nutter’s Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-box Were All Set Out for Him in the Small Parlour at the Mills; and How That Night Was Passed in the House by the Church-yard”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 137:",
          "text": "Perhaps ’twas the state in which the poor lady lay up stairs that helped to make them excited and frightened.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of upstairs."
      ],
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        [
          "upstairs",
          "upstairs#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up stairs"
}