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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | on an upper floor |
| Synonyms: | above, in the upper story, overhead, upper |
| Antonyms: | downstairs |
| Main Entry: | authority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expert, animate or inanimate |
| Synonyms: | CEO, arbiter, aristocrat, bible, big cheese, big shot, big wig, boss, brains, brass, buff*, city hall, connoisseur, czar, egghead, establishment*, exec, executive, expert, feds, front office, governor, guru, ivory dome, judge, kingfish, kingpin, law*, power elite, pro, professional, professor, pundit, scholar, specialist, textbook, top brass, top dog, top hand, upstairs, veteran, virtuoso, whiz, wizard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group of advisers |
| Synonyms: | advisers, advisory group, brass, cabinet, committee, conclave, council, directorate, directors, execs, executive suite, executives, front office, jury, panel, trustees, upstairs |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
| Main Entry: | floor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bottom of a room; level of a multistory building |
| Synonyms: | basement, boards, canvas, carpet, cellar, deck, downstairs, flat, flooring, ground, landing, lowest point, mat, mezzanine, nadir, rug, stage, story, tier, upstairs |
| Antonyms: | ceiling |
| Main Entry: | gallery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | balcony |
| Synonyms: | arcade, loggia, mezzanine, patio, porch, upstairs, veranda |
| Main Entry: | head |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | top part of an animate body |
| Synonyms: | attic, belfry, brain, capitulum, coconut, cranium, crown, dome, gray matter, noggin, noodle, pate, scalp, skull, think tank, thinker*, top story, upper story, upstairs |
| Antonyms: | foot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heaven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where God lives; wonderful feeling |
| Synonyms: | Arcadia, Canaan, Elysium, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion, afterworld, atmosphere, azure*, beyond, bliss, dreamland, ecstasy, empyrean, enchantment, eternal home, eternal rest, eternity, fairyland, felicity, firmament, glory, great unknown, happiness, happy hunting ground, harmony, heights, hereafter, immortality, kingdom, kingdom come, life everlasting, life to come, next world, nirvana, paradise, pearly gates, promised land, rapture, sky*, the blue, transport, upstairs, wonderland |
| Antonyms: | hell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | management |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persons running an organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, board, bosses, brass, directorate, directors, employers, execs, executive, executive suite, executives, front office, head, mainframe, management, micro management, person upstairs, top brass, upstairs |
| Antonyms: | employees |
| Main Entry: | over |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | above |
| Synonyms: | aloft, beyond, covering, farther up, higher than, in heaven, in the sky, off, on high, on top of, overhead, overtop, straight up, traversely, upstairs |
| Notes: | more than refers to countable items (there are more than 50 pies); over refers to general or unspecified amounts (over half the church is full) |
| Antonyms: | under |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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