uptown

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Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): (noun, adjective) /ˈʌptaʊn/, (adverb) /ʌpˈtaʊn/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -aʊn

Noun

uptown (plural uptowns)

(chiefly Canada, US) The residential part of a city, away from the commercial center.
(US) The commercial center of town (in Charlotte, North Carolina).
- 1997 09, Cities of the United States: The South, Gale Cengage, →ISBN:
  Charlotte / Douglas International Airport, a U.S. Air hub, is about twenty minutes from uptown and is the […]
- 2004 December 13, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2005 USA: With Coverage of Canada, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 411:
  Charlotte has a number of museums that give visitors an insider's perspective on the region, most of which are [...] in uptown, and the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Rd., […]

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Translations

the residential part of a city

Chinese:
Mandarin: 居民区 (zh) (jūmínqū)
Finnish: esikaupunki (fi), laitakaupunki (fi)
German: Wohngebiet (de) n
Indonesian: tepi kota
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: dorbajar m, tax (ku)
Spanish: barrio residencial m
Tagalog: dulumbayan, dulumbalen
Turkish: şehir merkezi dışı (tr)

Adjective

uptown (not generally comparable, comparative further uptown or farther uptown or more uptown, superlative furthest uptown or farthest uptown or most uptown)

(chiefly Canada, US) In the upper part of a town.
(chiefly Canada, US, by extension) Of or relating to an affluent area or population.
uptown problems
- 1983, Billy Joel, “Uptown Girl”:
  She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy
(US) In or of the central commercial center of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Synonym: (in other cities) downtown
- 1956, The Nation - Volume 182, page 188:
  Thus when he raised hell and got a toilet in uptown Charlotte for Negroes, he was not regarded as an agitator but as a public-spirited citizen.
- 1975, North Carolina. Supreme Court, North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, page 259:
  […] he was operating a mobile unit in uptown Charlotte when he received a call at approximately 7:00 p.m. […]
- 1997, Successes in Urban Problem-solving, Mayoral Perspectives: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittees on the District of Columbia of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight and the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives ... One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, March 11, 1997, page 83:
  […] you might want to also check into Charlotte's uptown development corporation, which is a very similar set up […]
- 2000, Mary Norton Kratt, Mary Manning Boyer, Remembering Charlotte: Postcards from a New South City, 1905-1950:
  […] in uptown Charlotte in this period.
- 2008, David Gordon Bennett, Jeffrey C. Patton, A Geography of the Carolinas, Parkway Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 131:
  […] Charlotte staffed currently by 7,000 employees. Additionally, this bank has 6,000 or so employed uptown. Bank of America has in excess of 10,000 workers in uptown Charlotte and has opened a service center near High Point with another […]
- 2009 April 28, Mary Kratt, Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History, History Press, →ISBN:
  Charlotteans produced iron, tobacco, doors, spokes and handles, wagons, carriages, harnesses and marble works. And, on uptown streets, there were numerous saloons. Charlotte was known as "a bustling, prosperous city" […]
- 2011, Douglas Houck, Historic Charlotte County: An Illustrated History, HPN Books, →ISBN, page 84:
  Charlotte needed “cross-town boulevards” to relieve congestion on uptown streets. Mayor Baxter knew that Charlotte had become a major trucking and distribution center […]
- 2018 June 15, Howard E. Covington Jr., Marion A. Ellis, The Story of Nationsbank: Changing the Face of American Banking, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 90:
  […] Charlotte city executive in 1968, was demonstrating that banks had a humanistic side. At his behest, NCNB started opening new lines of business in areas previously considered off-limits for major uptown banks. In Charlotte, the […]

Adverb