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upwards |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv [AS. upweardes See {Up-}, and {-wards}.] 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. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. --Hooker. 2. In the upper parts above. Dagon his name sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. --Milton. 3. Yet more indefinitely more above; over From twenty years old and upward. --Num. i. 3. {Upward of}, or {Upwards of}, more than above. I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}, {upward}, {upwardly}] [ant: {down}, {down}, {down}, {down}] 2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: {up}, {upward}]
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