"up-stairs" meaning in English

{
  "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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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 42.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 180:",
          "text": "In another moment the locksmith was standing in the street, whence he could see that the light once more travelled up-stairs, and soon returning to the room below, shone brightly through the chinks in the shutters.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visiter, and Makes a Call”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 78:",
          "text": "So Mrs. Sturk led the way up-stairs, whispering as she ascended; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1872], [Emma Boultwood], “At Fernfield Hall”, in Maggie’s Message, London: The Religious Tract Society; […], page 55:",
          "text": "“Well, we must find out Mr. Frank’s address to-morrow, and you must write and tell him all about it,” said his wife, and taking up the jug of milk she had come to fetch, she went up-stairs. But the next minute she came flying down again. “John, run for the doctor directly,” she said; “that poor thing is dying, I do believe. Go up and call Molly,” she said as she went up-stairs again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200, column 2:",
          "text": "Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose,—there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead,—came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of upstairs."
      ],
      "id": "en-up-stairs-en-adv-5lj5Dswq",
      "links": [
        [
          "upstairs",
          "upstairs#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "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"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English archaic forms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 42.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 180:",
          "text": "In another moment the locksmith was standing in the street, whence he could see that the light once more travelled up-stairs, and soon returning to the room below, shone brightly through the chinks in the shutters.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visiter, and Makes a Call”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 78:",
          "text": "So Mrs. Sturk led the way up-stairs, whispering as she ascended; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1872], [Emma Boultwood], “At Fernfield Hall”, in Maggie’s Message, London: The Religious Tract Society; […], page 55:",
          "text": "“Well, we must find out Mr. Frank’s address to-morrow, and you must write and tell him all about it,” said his wife, and taking up the jug of milk she had come to fetch, she went up-stairs. But the next minute she came flying down again. “John, run for the doctor directly,” she said; “that poor thing is dying, I do believe. Go up and call Molly,” she said as she went up-stairs again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200, column 2:",
          "text": "Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose,—there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead,—came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of upstairs."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "upstairs",
          "upstairs#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up-stairs"
}