upward
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old English upweardes. up + -ward.
[edit] Pronunciation
- Upward \Up"ward\
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[edit] Adverb
upward (plural: upwards)
- 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.
- Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. -Hooker.
- In the upper parts; above.
- Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. -Milton.
- Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
- From twenty years old and upward. -Num. i. 3.
- Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
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upward (uncountable)
- (obsolete) : The upper part; the top.
- From the extremest upward of thy head. -Shak.