Upward /(?)/

Up·ward

Upward

adv.
  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.
  2. In the upper parts; above.
    Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish.
  3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
    From twenty years old and upward.
    — Num. i. 3.
    I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years.

Phrases & Compounds
Upward of
more than; above.

Upward

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

Upward

n.
  1. The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
    From the extremest upward of thy head.