Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • At or toward the higher part or upper end of a street.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Toward the higher part of a street.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Toward the higher part of a street.

Etymologies

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up +‎ street

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Examples

  • She paused outside Craven's Undertaking Parlor, looking upstreet at the laughing boys on their ladders, hanging paper lanterns from high poles and building eaves.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • We went upstreet, through the shadow of the great grim fort.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • We went upstreet, through the shadow of the great grim fort.

    The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

  • No, it wasn't a pedestrian crossing - the pedestrian crossing was about 100m upstreet.

    Muti 2009

  • No, it wasn't a pedestrian crossing - the pedestrian crossing was about 100m upstreet.

    Muti 2009

  • No, it wasn't a pedestrian crossing - the pedestrian crossing was about 100m upstreet.

    Muti 2009

  • An annual literary publication that prints fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry from authors in town and around the country, upstreet is Berkshire-grown and making its way onto the national stage.

    GotPoetry.com News 2009

  • Pressing himself into the shadows of a carriage house, Jabey peered upstreet and down at the dark, massive forms of the istocrats’ castles.

    PodCastle » Podcastle 78: The Tinyman and Caroline 2009

  • Pressing himself into the shadows of a carriage house, Jabey peered upstreet and down at the dark, massive forms of the istocrats’ castles.

    PodCastle » 2009 » November 2009

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