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upturned | upupa | upupa epops | upupidae | upwaft | upward | upwardly | upwards | upwhirl | upwind | upwreath

upward

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Adjective, Adverb
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up=ward
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33 in 33 verses (in OT : 30 in 30 verses) (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

upwardadv. [AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.].
  •  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."  [1913 Webster]
  •  In the upper parts; above.  [1913 Webster]
    "Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
    And down ward fish.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.  [1913 Webster]
    "From twenty years old and upward."  [1913 Webster]
    "I have been your wife in this obedience
    Upward of twenty years.
    "  [1913 Webster]
Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above.
upwarda. [AS. upweard. See Up, and -ward.].
     Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.  [1913 Webster]
upwardn. 
     The upper part; the top.  [1913 Webster]
    "From the extremest upward of thy head."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

upward, adv. & adj.
--adv. (also upwards) towards what is higher, superior, larger in amount, more important, or earlier.
--adj. moving, extending, pointing, or leading upward.

Idiom
upwards of more than (found upwards of forty specimens).
Etymology
OE upweard(es) (as UP, -WARD)

THESAURUS

upward

above, abovestairs, airward, aloft, aloof, anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascensional, ascensive, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, climbing, descending, down-trending, downward, drifting, flowing, fluent, flying, going, gyrational, gyratory, heavenward, high, high up, in the air, in the ascendant, in the clouds, leaping, mounting, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, over, overhead, passing, plunging, progressive, rampant, rearing, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, sideward, sinking, skyrocketing, skyward, soaring, spiraling, springing, straight up, streaming, tiptoe, to the zenith, up, up attic, up north, up steps, up-trending, upalong, uparching, upcoming, upgoing, upgrade, uphill, uphillward, uplong, uprising, upsloping, upstairs, upstream, upstreamward, uptown, upwards, upwith

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