Usually means: Higher in position or status.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. upper: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Upper, upper, upper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. upper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. upper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. upper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Upper, upper: Wordnik
  7. upper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. upper: Wiktionary
  9. upper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. upper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. upper: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. upper: Dictionary.com
  13. upper (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. upper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Upper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Upper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. upper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. upper: Rhymezone
  19. upper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. upper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. upper: Free Dictionary
  22. upper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. upper: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Upper: Seinfeld Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upper: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. upper: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upper: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. upper, upper, upper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. upper: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. upper: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  At a higher level, rank or position.
adjective:  Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
adjective:  (geology, of strata or geological time periods) Younger, more recent.
adjective:  (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
noun:  A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
noun:  Anything that cheers one up.
noun:  The upper portion of something
noun:  (shoemaking) The piece of leather, etc., that forms the top part of a shoe above the sole.
noun:  (footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
noun:  Someone with higher social standing
noun:  A senior student.
noun:  That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
noun:  A tooth in the upper jaw.
noun:  A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.
noun:  An upper berth or bunk.
noun:  (Taoism) A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.

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