Upper

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: up=per

CIDE DICTIONARY

Upper, a. 

 Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.  [1913 Webster]

The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett (Thucyd.). -- Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench) during the Commonwealth. -- Upper case, the top one of a pair of compositor's cases. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. -- Upper covert (Zoöl.), one of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills. -- Upper deck (Naut.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck. -- Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes. -- Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes. -- Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.] -- Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper half of a double topsail. -- Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water. -- Upper world. (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.

Upper, n. 

 The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Upper, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 higher in place; situated above another part (the upper atmosphere; the upper lip).
2 higher in rank or dignity etc. (the upper class).
3 situated on higher ground (Upper Egypt).
--n. the part of a boot or shoe above the sole.

Idiom

on one's uppers colloq. extremely short of money. upper case see CASE(2). upper class the highest class of society, esp. the aristocracy. upper-class adj. of the upper class. the upper crust colloq. the aristocracy. upper-cut n. an upwards blow delivered with the arm bent.
--v.tr. hit with an upper-cut. the upper hand dominance or control. Upper House the higher house in a legislature, esp. the House of Lords. the upper regions
1 the sky.
2 heaven. upper works the part of a ship that is above the water when fully laden.

Upper, n. sl. a stimulant drug, esp. an amphetamine.

Etymology

UP v. + -ER(1)

THESAURUS

Upper

Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Dexamyl, Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, Methedrine, a cut above, above, advantage, ahead, amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, aristocrats, ascendancy, ascendant, authority, better, blue bloods, broke, capping, chosen, cocaine, coke, command, control, crystal, destitute, dextroamphetamine sulfate, distinguished, dominance, eclipsing, edge, elite, eminent, exceeding, excellent, excelling, finer, football, greater, heart, higher, highest, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, indigent, jolly bean, later, loftier, major, marked, methamphetamine hydrochloride, northern, of choice, one up on, outstanding, over, pep pill, poor, poverty-stricken, power, purple heart, rare, rivaling, snow, speed, stimulant, super, superior, superiority, supremacy, surpassing, sway, topmost, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, upland, upmost, upper case, upper class, upper crust, upper hand, uppermost, wealthy

ROGET THESAURUS

Upper

Height

N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.