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up·ward
(ŭp′wərd)adv. or up·wards (-wərdz)
1. In, to, or toward a higher place, level, or position: flying upward.
2. Toward a higher position in a hierarchy or on a socioeconomic scale: a young executive moving upward fast.
3. Toward the head or upper parts: bare from the waist upward.
4. Toward a higher amount, degree, or rank: Prices soared upward.
5. Toward a later time or age: from adolescence upward.
adj.
Idiom: Directed toward a higher place or position: upward movement.
upward/upwards of
More than; in excess of: "the onslaught of upwards of seventy divisions" (Winston S. Churchill).
up′ward·ly adv.
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upwards
(ˈʌpwədz) orupward
adv
1. from a lower to a higher place, level, condition, etc
2. towards a higher level, standing, etc
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upwards
– upward1. 'upwards'
In British English, if you move or look upwards, you move or look towards a place that is higher than the place where you are.
She stretched upwards to the curtain pole.
He had happened to look upwards.
Upwards is always an adverb.
2. 'upward'
Speakers of American English usually say upward instead of 'upwards'.
I began to climb upward over the steepest ground.
In both British and American English, upward is an adjective. An upward movement or look is one in which someone or something moves or looks upwards.
...a quick upward flick of the arm.
He would steal upward glances at the clock.
When upward is an adjective, you can only use it in front of a noun.
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| Adv. | 1. |  upwards - 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"down, downward, downwardly, downwards - spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" |
| 2. |  upwards - to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" |
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upwards
adverb
1. up, skywards, heavenwards Hunter nodded again and gazed upwards in fear.
2. (with of) above, over, more than, beyond, exceeding, greater than, in excess of projects worth upwards of 200 million pounds
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→ hacia arribaMultilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009