Usually means: Residential or commercial area, elevated.
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  1. uptown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. uptown: Merriam-Webster
  3. uptown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. uptown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. uptown: Collins English Dictionary
  6. uptown: Vocabulary.com
  7. Uptown, uptown: Wordnik
  8. uptown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. uptown: Wiktionary
  10. uptown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. uptown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. uptown: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. uptown: Dictionary.com
  14. uptown: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. uptown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Uptown (Machinations album), Uptown (Pittsburgh), Uptown (Prince song), Uptown (The Crystals song), Uptown (band), Uptown (group), Uptown (newspaper), Uptown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Uptown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. uptown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. uptown: Rhymezone
  20. Uptown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. uptown: FreeDictionary.org
  22. uptown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. uptown: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Uptown (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uptown: Encyclopedia

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. uptown, uptown, uptown: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Uptown: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Uptown: A Seattle Lexicon
  5. uptown: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly Canada, US) The residential part of a city, away from the commercial center.
adjective:  (chiefly Canada, US) In the upper part of a town.
adjective:  (chiefly Canada, US, by extension) Of or relating to an affluent area or population.
adverb:  (chiefly Canada, US) To or in the upper part of a town.

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