upwards of

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.— Hooker.[1913 Webster]

2.In the upper parts; above. [1913 Webster]

Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. [1913 Webster]

From twenty years old and upward.— Num. i. 3.[1913 Webster]

Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above. [1913 Webster]

I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years.— Shak.[1913 Webster]