below-stairs

A form of below stairs — On a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; below the main floor of a multi-floor building.

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Meanings

adjectivebelow-stairs (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of below stairs.

    The former minister's long-suffering wife, Jane, reacted to the news by saying: “Quite frankly, if you bed people that I call ‘below-stairs class’, they go to the papers, don't they?”

    2004 June 12, Vikram Dodd, “Coven's footnote to Clark diaries”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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APA

below-stairs. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/below-stairs

MLA

“below-stairs.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/below-stairs. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “below-stairs,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/below-stairs.

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