up-stairs
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "So Mrs. Sturk led the way up-stairs, whispering as she ascended; […]"
- "“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."
- "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."
Usage
Inflected Forms
further up-stairs (comparative)
farther up-stairs (comparative)
furthest up-stairs (superlative)
farthest up-stairs (superlative)