English

Etymology
Anglo-Saxon upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.

Pronunciation
Upward \Up"ward

Adverb
upward (plural: upwards)

1. 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.

#:Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. -Hooker.

1. In the upper parts; above.

#:Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. -Milton.

1. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

#:From twenty years old and upward. -Num. i. 3.

1. Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

<!-- move this to upwards of: #Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above. ;; I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. --Shak. -->

Noun
upwards

1. obsolete : The upper part; the top.

#:From the extremest upward of thy head. -Shak.

See also
upwards of
up

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