Definitions for uptown

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uptown up·town

Spelling: [adverb, noun uhp-toun; adjective Uptown is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in uptown (noptuw).

Definitions for uptown

noun

1. the uptown section of a town or city:

adverb

1. to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city:

adjective

1. moving toward, situated in, or pertaining to the upper part of a town:
2. of, for, or characteristic of affluent people; elegant, stylish, or luxurious:

Origin of uptown

First recorded in 1830-40; up- + town

Examples for uptown

As people were packing their cars to evacuate back then, I was in an uptown hospital in labor.

The president of the United States made that remark just uptown of where “loss of life” occurred in Chicago—right here in America.

It was the fall of 1968, the first day of class at Dominican College in uptown New Orleans.

His presence, and that of Mrs. Morton, at the uptown hotel, was known.

I trudged in some direction, uptown I hoped, toward my hotel, which was not really near Fifth Avenue and probably not uptown.

This resolution coloured his reverie throughout the uptown journey.

I locked the study door, went back to my roadster, and headed her uptown.

Say, Stilly, I'm off uptown to attend to the emptiness in this stone utensil.

There are downtown designers and uptown ones—both in temperament and in geography.

So Helen left for uptown with her bundles, wearing her new suit and hat.