belowstairs

English

Alternative forms

below stairs

Etymology

below +‎ stairs

Adverb

belowstairs (comparative more belowstairs, superlative most belowstairs)

(archaic) A floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; downstairs.
- 1752, Stukeley, Memoirs of Isaac Newton's life
  it was talkd, that there was an old gentleman belowstairs whom they fancied to be Sr. Isaac Newton.

Translations

downstairs — see downstairs

Noun

belowstairs (plural belowstairs)

(Britain) The areas of a large house in which house staff works.
(Britain) The staff that works in such areas.

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