Upward word meaning and definition

[adv] 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"
[adv] to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
[adjective] directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"

\Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See {Up-}, and {-wards}.] 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. --I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. --Hooker. 2. In the upper parts; above. Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. --Milton. 3. 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.
\Up"ward\, a. [AS. upweard. See {Up}, and {-ward}.] Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
\Up"ward\, n. The upper part; the top. [Obs.] From the extremest upward of thy head. --Shak.

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