Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
Directed toward a higher place;
Adjective S.
directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
Adverb
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"
Adverb
to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
adv.
Alt. of Upwards
a.
Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with
upward course.
n.
The upper part; the top.
Upward
Upward
From the extremest upward of thy head.
Directed toward a higher place;
The upper part; the top.
Usage Examples
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
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Other Usage ExamplesHeights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
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