Upward
WordNet
adjective
(1) Directed up
"The cards were face upward"
"An upward stroke of the pen"
adverb
(2) Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
"Look up!"
"The music surged up"
"The fragments flew upwards"
"Prices soared upwards"
"Upwardly mobile"
(3) To a later time
"They moved the meeting date up"
"From childhood upward"
WiktionaryText
Adverb
upward
- 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.
- In the upper parts; above.
- Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. -Milton.
- Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
- From twenty years old and upward. -Num. i. 3.
- Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
Noun
- : The upper part; the top.
- From the extremest upward of thy head. -Shak.