uptown
Americanadverb
adjective
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moving toward, situated in, or pertaining to the upper part of a town.
Take the uptown bus.
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of, for, or characteristic of affluent people; elegant, stylish, or luxurious.
uptown fashions; uptown tastes.
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uptowns
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Relaxing with his team-mates in their hotel in uptown Charlotte, Ryan Christie watched the Lionel Messi show on Tuesday evening.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Funnily enough, the relative ease of making the world a better place was already in the back of my mind as I headed uptown to see “Disclosure Day.”
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Ahmad, his wife, and his two daughters eventually settled in uptown Oklahoma City, four miles northwest of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
The 2007 opening of FX’s groundbreaking legal drama “Damages,” in which Byrne’s young lawyer, Ellen Parsons, flees an uptown New York apartment building in which something terrible has clearly happened, sparked all manner of conversation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
She agreed to see me, and I took a taxi uptown, impatient at the slowness with which we moved.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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