upwards
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1.4
- adverb
- /ˈʌp.wɚdz/
:
en adelante
- "I must have been upwards of twelve or so."
Examples
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We're talking upwards of ten million euros.
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Your profit on a mere $6,000 investment would be upwards of $60,000!
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Well, I have upwards of 1,000 homes.
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But this has upwards of 1,000.
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For the more sophisticated children, that is from five and upwards, we have a very interesting range of robots.
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The university entrance tests influence every aspect of education from at least junior high upwards.
Blog text (30) -
Our contestants will have upwards of five minutes to discuss their strategy before the battle begins.
Blog text (11) -
Yeah well, the newspapers are downplaying it, but we think it's upwards of $10 million.
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It has sold upwards of 15 million copies, and has been printed in 14 different languages.
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The project started with a budget of $50,000, but after additional funding, it reached upwards of $200,000.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Toward the future from now on
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2.7
Moving forward from a certain time or place
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2.2
From a time or place and continuing forward
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2.3
Starting at a time and continuing after it
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9.3
From that time on
From that time on
From this time on into the future
Idioms
Surface Forms
Morphology
upwards = (semi-transparent) = up + wards
The component meaning 'up' (increase/higher) is present, but the idiomatic use in phrases like 'upwards of three weeks' meaning 'more than' is somewhat idiomatic. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Upwards is the same parts up + -wards but used for time, with up meaning 'from this point' and -wards meaning 'toward', similar to homeward. So upwards can mean 'from this time onward', which is why we say 'age five upwards' to mean starting at five and continuing after.