upwards : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: upwards	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for upwards
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
upwards adv 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" Synonym(s): up, upwards, upward, upwardly Antonym(s): down, downward, downwardly, downwards to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" Synonym(s): up, upwards, upward
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See {Up-}, and {-wards}.] 1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. --I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. --Hooker. 2. In the upper parts; above. Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. --Milton. 3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. From twenty years old and upward. --Num. i. 3. {Upward of}, [or] {Upwards of}, more than; above. I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. --Shak.