• (America) IPA: /ˈʌpwɜː(ɹ)d/
• (British) IPA: /ˈʌpwəd/

upward

1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin

   We ran upward

   • Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.

2. In the upper parts; above.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 1”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, / And downward fish.

3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Numbers 1:3 ↗:

     From twenty years old and upward.

• up, upwards

• down, downwards

• Russian: вверх

• Russian: наверху́

• Russian: вы́ше

upward (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The upper part; the top.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:

     From the extremest upward of thy head.

upward

1. Directed toward a higher place.

   with upward eye; with upward course

• (toward a higher place) upwards

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