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ADVERB (2)

1. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position;
- Example: "look up!"
- Example: "the music surged up"
- Example: "the fragments flew upwards"
- Example: "prices soared upwards"
- Example: "upwardly mobile"
[syn: up, upwards, upward, upwardly]

2. to a later time;
- Example: "they moved the meeting date up"
- Example: "from childhood upward"
[syn: up, upwards, upward]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See
   Up-, and -wards.]
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   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.
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            Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking
            upward, we speak and prevail.         --Hooker.
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   2. In the upper parts; above.
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            Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
            And down ward fish.                   --Milton.
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   3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
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            From twenty years old and upward.     --Num. i. 3.
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   Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above.
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            I have been your wife in this obedience
            Upward of twenty years.               --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

upwards
    adv 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, upwards, upward,
           upwardly] [ant: down, downward, downwardly,
           downwards]
    2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from
       childhood upward" [syn: up, upwards, upward]