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upward

[uhp-werd]

adverb

  1. toward a higher place or position.

    The birds flew upward.

  2. toward a higher or more distinguished condition, rank, level, etc..

    His employer wishes to move him upward in the company.

  3. to a greater degree; more.

    fourscore and upward.

  4. toward a large city, the source or origin of a stream, or the interior of a country or region.

    They followed the Thames River upward from the North Sea to London.

  5. in the upper parts; above.



adjective

  1. moving or tending upward; directed at or situated in a higher place or position.

upward

/ ˈʌə /

adjective

  1. directed or moving towards a higher point or level

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adverb

  1. a variant of upwards

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • upwardly adverb
  • upwardness noun
  • ˈܱɲ adverb
  • ˈܱɲԱ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of upward1

before 900; Middle English; Old English upweard (cognate with Dutch opwaart ). See up-, -ward
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. upwards of, more than; above.

    My vacation cost me upwards of a thousand dollars.

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Example Sentences

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However, oil market experts say there is currently less upward pressure on the price of oil than there was three years ago.

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Magistrate Robert Webster agreed with the defence and found that the incident happened due to a dust devil - an upward spiralling vortex of air and debris - that was "unforeseen and unforeseeable".

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Democrats argue that it would cost Americans upward of $1 billion and would require the Air Force to “cut corners” in its attempts to bring the civilian plane up to snuff quickly.

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“Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space.

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Those beautiful Cézannes and Picassos in the Guggenheim Museum can’t paper over the atrocities; the gilded myths of American optimism, our upward mobility and welcoming shores won’t mask the demons.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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