Up·ward Up·wards adv.
 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.
    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.
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