0 to or on a lower floor of a building, especially the ground floor: --
1 on a lower floor of a building, especially the ground floor of a house: --
a downstairs bathroom
2 the part of a building, especially a house, that is on the ground floor: --
3 the lower floor of a building, especially the ground floor: --
The downstairs was a mess.
We finished painting upstairs yesterday, but the downstairs still needs some work.
4 on or to a lower floor of a building, esp. the ground floor, or down the stairs: --
Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows-she had evidently shut up the top f loor of the house.
In response, he takes it back downstairs with him on his way out.
Since the bathroom serves two bedrooms upstairs, and one study bedroom downstairs, this is logically located at the half-level.
However, the telephone number would put her, unwittingly through to the administration manager downstairs.
Has a bathroom downstairs, but his bedroom and toilet are upstairs.
Moreover, the customers downstairs seemed to be more reactive to other customers.
When she hears footsteps downstairs, she asks nicely for the "blessed visitor," whoever it is, to bring up a container of food for her.
At the least, upstairs and downstairs indicates the early entrainment of a directional spatial term with a route.