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.
Wiktionary
a. more than; in excess of
Usage examples of "upwards of".
Captain Lewis took twelve men and went to the pond and creek between camp and the old village, and caught upwards of 800 fine fish: 79 pike, 8 salmon resembling trout [8 fish resembling salmon trout], 1 rock, 1 flat back, 127 buffalo and red horse, 4 bass, and 490 cats, with many small silver fish and shrimp.
An old man, upwards of eighty years of age, a daily frequenter of the church of St.
The judge's heavy eyebrows seemed to twitch upwards of their own accord.
But though the phalanx stayed more or less constant, the great beasts of which it was composed charged steadily at upwards of twenty miles an hour, appearing suddenly from thin air at one end of the plain, and disappearing equally abruptly at the other end.
He had watched upwards of a hundred people or so simply vanish into thin air in a way that was completely impossible.
Designed to carry upwards of three hundred passengers in its civilian incarnation, the President's personal 747 (there was another backup aircraft, of course) was outfitted to hold a third of that number in stately comfort.
Mitchell's background was in Abrams power packs, big jet turbine engines that drove the tanks at speeds upwards of sixty miles per hour.
Out of upwards of four hundred notes, some forty are taken from the annotations in Pusey and Watts, but in every case these have been indicated by the initials E.
They were answered that it was the king of France, who had been made prisoner, and that upwards of ten knights and squires challenged him at the same time as belonging to each of them.