Usually means: Direction away from Earth's center.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word upward:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. upward: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. upward: Merriam-Webster
  3. upward: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. upward: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. upward: Collins English Dictionary
  6. upward: Vocabulary.com
  7. Upward, upward: Wordnik
  8. upward: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. upward: Wiktionary
  10. upward: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. upward: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. upward: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. upward: Dictionary.com
  14. upward: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. upward: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Upward: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Upward: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. upward: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. upward: Rhymezone
  20. upward: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. upward: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. upward: FreeDictionary.org
  23. upward: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. upward: TheFreeDictionary.com

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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