Uptown

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uptown \Up*town"\, adv.
     To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown. [Colloq.
     U. S.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Uptown \Up"town`\, a.
     Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or
     city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society.
     [Colloq. U. S.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  uptown
       adj : of or located in the upper part of a town; "uptown
             residential areas" [ant: {downtown}]
       n : a residential part of town away from the central commercial
           district
       adv : toward or in the upper part of town [ant: {downtown}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "uptown":
     Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary,
     Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto,
     blighted area, burghal, business district, central city, citified,
     city, city center, civic, core, downtown, ghetto, greenbelt,
     heavenward, inner city, interurban, metropolitan, midtown,
     municipal, oppidan, outskirts, red-light district,
     residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center,
     skid road, skid row, skyward, slum, slums, suburban, suburbia,
     suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, town, up, up attic,
     up north, up steps, upalong, uphill, uphillward, uplong, upstairs,
     upstream, upstreamward, upward, upwards, upwith, urban,
     urban blight, village
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Uptown, PA
    Zip code(s): 15219