'Upwards' definitions:

Definition of 'upwards'

(from WordNet)
adverb
Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: up, upwards, upward, upwardly] [ant: down, downward, downwardly, downwards]
adverb
To a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: up, upwards, upward]

Definition of 'Upwards'

From: GCIDE
  • Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
  • Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. In the upper parts; above. [1913 Webster]
  • Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. [1913 Webster]
  • From twenty years old and upward. --Num. i. 3. [1913 Webster]
  • Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above. [1913 Webster]
  • I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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