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| English Dictionary: upwards |
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| 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
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| 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.
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