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🏡 A residential area ⬆️ Toward upper area 🏙️ In the upper area
uptown

uptown

35 3.2
Toward or in the upper part of a city
  • adverb
  • /ˈʌpˌtaʊn/
  • US
translation icon : hacia el barrio alto
  • l know a really good place uptown.
  • move uptown

I'd go on the comic strip up Uptown on the Upper East Side here.

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Examples

  • I'm on my way uptown to the office.

    Simchas and Sorrows (2022)

  • We'll go uptown in a couple of hours.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Can you imagine what we can do if we go uptown?

    The Kitchen (2019)

  • Well, you know, I'm going uptown too.

    Annie Hall (1977)

  • They want to come uptown and go to the park after.

    2 Days in New York (2012)

  • At three-thirty, stand outside with the others and take the Number Seven bus uptown.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • He went uptown to brief the commissioner.

    Chaos (2005)

  • Marcus turns on the radio, an old song from the sixties, as they head uptown.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The following week, Hal insisted Robin come uptown for the day to visit the Cloisters, where she'd never been.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • We're heading uptown to visit some friends who live near Central Park.

Antonyms

downtown
  • US
1.6

Toward the main part of a city where many offices and shops are

How Central

central city
4 3.3
uptown
  • US
35 3.2
out-of-town
178 3.2

Surface Forms

uptown positive

Morphology

uptown = town (transparent) = up + town

The adverbial use 'toward/in the upper part of town' is a direct spatial reading of 'up' + 'town'. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Uptown is formed from up + town, meaning 'to or in the upper part of a town'. So used as an adverb, uptown means going toward or being in that upper or residential part of the city.