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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upstate
adjective
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▪ Born in 1882, Roosevelt came from an old-established and well-to-do landowning family of upstate New York.
▪ But the anguished upstate New York social worker now finds himself waging a spirited campaign to keep his sibling from death row.
▪ During the 1980s it bought Marine Midland, a commercial bank based in upstate New York.
▪ Each day I write in the quiet of the upstate New York mornings.
▪ Even now they were travelling through sparsely inhabited country as they headed further upstate.
▪ Her home was on an upstate New York farm.
▪ I have to complete my contract and teach for a semester, which means commuting to upstate New York every week.
▪ It was in upstate New York.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
upstate

1901, American English, from up (adv.) + state (n.).

Wiktionary
upstate

a. (context US English) Of the northern section of a state. adv. (context US English) To, or from the northern section of a state. n. (context US English) The northern section of a state.

WordNet
upstate

adv. in or toward the northern parts of a state; "he lives upstate New York"

Wikipedia
Upstate

The term upstate may refer to the northerly portions of several U.S. states. It also can refer to parts of states that have a higher elevation, away from sea level. These regions tend to be rural; an exception is Delaware.

On the east coast, "upstate" generally refers to places away from the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Maine, except for "Down East"
  • Upstate California, a 2001 marketing campaign to promote the northern half of Northern California
  • Upstate New York, an area of New York north of the New York City metropolitan area
    • SUNY Upstate Medical University, often referred to as "Upstate"
      • Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, New York
  • Upstate South Carolina, the northwestern "corner" of South Carolina
  • Upstate Pennsylvania, a tourism region that includes much of Northeastern Pennsylvania

Usage examples of "upstate".

Both Broder and Eastham served their time upstate at the Hudson facility, but Broder was there four years ago, while Eastham was there two years ago.

She got married, and when her husband died she went to work in a hosiery mill in upstate New York to support three young children, earning 65 cents her first week.

Savage decided to confine Gime and Del Ling in a peculiar institution which the bronze man maintained in upstate New York.

He spent several weeks undergoing intense tactical training at Camp Smith in upstate New York, then came back to Midtown South and worked as a plainclothes narc running buy-and-bust operations.

In this trea, which was right on the borderline between Acadia ind the upstate parishes, Catholics and Protestants mixed n roughly equal numbers.

Epstein, owned lots of land in Sacket Lake, upstate New York, near Monticello.

Ephraim in upstate New York, in the Chautauqua Valley approximately seventy miles south of Lake Ontario.

Reporters shoved microphones at people and asked leading questions-in a Bolivian shoe factory, a Hassidic community in upstate New York, a firehouse in Queensland, Australia.

California felt like paradise, and he immediately determined to get away from the frigid winters in the snowbelt of upstate New York.

Like Siamese twins joined at the canal, the rolling hills and yuppified subdivisions of the upstate region are at constant odds with the bucolic flat lands and Mayberry-esque towns down state.

With us all the way had been Sullivan's three-antenna marine-band hi-fi portable radio, a never-ending squall of disc jockey babytalk, commercials for death, upstate bluegrass Jesus, and as we drove through the cloverleaf bedlams and past the morbid gray towns I perceived that all was in harmony, the stunned land feeding the convulsive radio, every acre of the night bursting with a kinetic unity, the logic beyond delirium.

In May of 1982, when she was twenty-one and still Audrey Garin, she and her roommate (who was also her best friend, then and ever), Janice Goodlin, had spent a wonderful weekend very likely the most perfect weekend of Audrey's life at Mohonk Mountain House in upstate New York.

They could drive upstate, and into Canada, and leave America to the ravages of fast-breeding bacilli and whatever fate was in store for her.

The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's Clue The case began on the outskirts of an upstate New York city with the dreadful name of Eulalia, behind the flaking shutters of a fat and curlicued house with architectural dandruff, recalling for all the world some blowsy ex-Bloomer Girl from the Gay Nineties of its origin.

It was Lawrence who'd suggested to JoLayne that they move upstate to Grange, where he could concentrate on fighting his disbarment, absent big-city distractions such as vengeful ex-clients.