The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upper \Up"per\, a.; comp. of Up. 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. 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.
The atmosphere.
Heaven.
This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.
Wikipedia
In the Greek mythology, Upper World, in contrast to the Greek underworld referring to the land of the dead, refers to the world where people live.
Category:Greek mythology
Upper World is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film starring Warren William as a wealthy married railroad tycoon whose friendship with a showgirl, played by Ginger Rogers, leads to blackmail and murder. Upper World is one of the last films released before the strict enforcement of the Hollywood Production Code by Joseph I. Breen, which began July 1, 1934.
Upper World and similar may refer to:
In mythology:
- Upper World (Greek), in Greek mythology, the land where people live, as opposed to the Underworld
- Upper World ("Heaven"), in Hungarian mythology, where the gods and good souls live
- the Upper World, where the Aiy (benevolent spirits) live, in Yakut mythology
In religion:
- Urdhva Loka, the upper world, in Jain cosmology
- the Seven Logas or Upper Worlds of Ayyavazhi (a Hindu sect) mythology
Other:
- Upper World (film), a 1934 drama starring Warren William and Ginger Rogers
Usage examples of "upper world".
She told Barnar that the fastest being, in the upper world and the subworlds alike, is a basiliscus.
But in this upper world of heights and rocks there might be any number of shelters.
Where we might at present be in relation to the upper world, I could no longer even begin to guess.
So she sent Mag to grateful clients in the upper world to be educated.
The narrow tip of that beak or nose which quested for the upper world thrust through a clump of the flowers and she lashed her belt at it.
At first worshipped with dark rites by the prairie-dogs, who saw in it a deity sent from the upper world, it afterward fell into dire neglect as the race of simple, artless burrowers succumbed before the onslaught of the conquering Aryan.