adj
Meaning 1
Directed toward a higher place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- with upward eye; with upward course
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
upward
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈʌpwɚd/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʌpwəd/
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Northern-England: /ˈʊpwəd/
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Scotland: /ˈʌpwəɾd/
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CMU ARPABET: AH1 P W ER0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- We ran upward.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
In the upper parts; above.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 5
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
The upper part; the top.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
directed up
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the cards were face upward
- an upward stroke of the pen
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 8
spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- look up!
- the music surged up
- the fragments flew upwards
- prices soared upwards
- upwardly mobile
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: up, upwards, upwardly
Antonyms: downward
adverb
Meaning 9
to a later time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they moved the meeting date up
- from childhood upward
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: up, upwards
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Old English upweardes, equivalent to up + -ward.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: насочен нагоре (nasočen nagore) — moving up, directed toward a higher place
- Bulgarian: нагорен (nagoren) — moving up, directed toward a higher place
- Finnish: ylös suuntaava — moving up, directed toward a higher place
- Māori: whakarunga — moving up, directed toward a higher place
- Māori: ki runga — moving up, directed toward a higher place
- Russian: поднима́ющийся (podnimájuščijsja) — moving up, directed toward a higher place
- Russian: восходя́щий (vosxodjáščij) — moving up, directed toward a higher place
- Bulgarian: нагоре (nagore) — toward an upper level
- Cornish: war-vann — toward an upper level
- Cornish: yn-bann — toward an upper level
- Estonian: üles — toward an upper level
- Finnish: ylös — toward an upper level
- Finnish: ylemmäs — toward an upper level
- German: aufwärts — toward an upper level
- Hebrew: מַעְלָה (má'la) — toward an upper level
- Latin: sūrsum — toward an upper level
- Māori: ki runga — toward an upper level
- Māori: whakarunga — toward an upper level
- Plautdietsch: nopp — toward an upper level
- Russian: вверх (vverx) — toward an upper level
- Russian: кве́рху (kvérxu) — toward an upper level
- Russian: ввысь (vvysʹ) — toward an upper level
- Russian: наве́рх (navérx) — toward an upper level
- Tocharian B: kauc — toward an upper level
- Bulgarian: нагоре (nagore) — in the upper parts; above
- Finnish: ylhäällä — in the upper parts; above
- Finnish: ylempänä — in the upper parts; above
- Russian: наверху́ (naverxú) — in the upper parts; above
- Russian: вверху́ (vverxú) — in the upper parts; above
- Bulgarian: отгоре (otgore) — yet more; above; over
- Finnish: ylöspäin — yet more; above; over
- Russian: вы́ше (výše) — yet more; above; over
- Russian: свы́ше (svýše) — yet more; above; over
Real reading context