uptown
Use Uptown in a sentence
adverb
1.
to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city: He rode uptown on the bus.
adjective
2.
moving toward, situated in, or pertaining to the upper part of a town: Take the uptown bus.
3.
of, for, or characteristic of affluent people; elegant, stylish, or luxurious: uptown fashions; uptown tastes.
noun
4.
the uptown section of a town or city: Uptown is less crowded.
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uptown (ˈʌpˈtaʊn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj, —adv | |
| 1. | towards, in, or relating to some part of a town that is away from the centre |
| —n | |
| 2. | such a part of a town, esp a residential part |
| 'up'towner | |
| —n | |
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Uptown
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
He convinces her to marry him and soon after the wedding, he exchanges life in the clinic for an upscale practice uptown.
But after a while, they move uptown, into the formal economy.
These restaurants have an uptown look of elegance and often uptown prices as well.
Then it's back into the subway and a few stops further uptown.
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