The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.]
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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.
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In the upper parts; above.
Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish.
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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.
Usage examples of "upward of".
Births are upward of about double that amount, less of course the execution of the newborn undesirables and death from natural causes.
The crazy weather and the smog, the sudden departure of the smog, rather, had resulted in a soaring upward of murders and suicides.
At the rear of this horizontal reach, Som's low-walled citadel sprawled, backed by the next leap upward of the mountain.
The pavilion was apparently a summer dormitory for upward of a score of persons.
But it would cost upward of six or seven million dollars to evacuate that area even for a day.
For upward of several hours she had sat and looked at it, pacing its length occasionally.
They're watching me right nowwhich meant they may have caught his involuntary reaction, the jerk upward of his head and stiffening of his spine that would signal his perception of something being amiss.
The thing from outer space was fifteen hundred feet long, and upward of a hundred and fifty feet through at its middle section, and well over two hundred in a curious bulge like a fish's head at its bow.