Usually means: Direction away from Earth's center.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word upward:

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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upward: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upward: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. UPWARD: Acronym Finder
  2. upward: Idioms

(Note: See upwardly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin.
adverb:  In the upper parts; above.
adverb:  Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
noun:  (obsolete) The upper part; the top.
adjective:  Directed toward a higher place.
noun:  A surname.

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