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uptown
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun uptown has 1 sense
- uptown(n = noun.location) Array - a residential part of town away from the central commercial district; Array is a part of city
is a kind of community, residential area, residential district
Adjective uptown has 1 sense
- uptown(a = adj.all) Array - of or located in the upper part of a town; "uptown residential areas" Antonym: downtown
Adverbial uptown has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
uptown, adv.
To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown. [1913 Webster]
uptown, a.
Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
uptown, adj., adv., & n. US
--adj. of or in the residential part of a town or city.
--adv. in or into this part.
--n. this part.
--adj. of or in the residential part of a town or city.
--adv. in or into this part.
--n. this part.
Derivative
uptowner n.
THESAURUS
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
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