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3 dictionary results for: Upwards
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
up·ward       [uhp-werd] Pronunciation Key
–adverb Also, upwards.
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
6.moving or tending upward; directed at or situated in a higher place or position.
—Idiom
7.upwards of, more than; above: My vacation cost me upwards of a thousand dollars.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE upweard (c. D opwaart). See up-, -ward]

—Related forms
up·ward·ly, adverb
up·ward·ness, noun
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up·ward       (ŭp'wərd)  Pronunciation Key 
adv.   or up·wards (-wərdz)
  1. In, to, or toward a higher place, level, or position: flying upward.
  2. Toward a higher position in a hierarchy or on a socioeconomic scale: a young executive moving upward fast.
  3. To or toward the source, origin, or interior.
  4. Toward the head or upper parts: bare from the waist upward.
  5. Toward a higher amount, degree, or rank: Prices soared upward.
  6. Toward a later time or age: from adolescence upward.

adj.   Directed toward a higher place or position: upward movement.

up'ward·ly adv.
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upwards

adverb
1. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: up] [ant: down] 
2. to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: up] 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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