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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Examples
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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
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We went upstreet, through the shadow of the great grim fort.
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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We went upstreet, through the shadow of the great grim fort.
The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909
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No, it wasn't a pedestrian crossing - the pedestrian crossing was about 100m upstreet.
Muti 2009
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No, it wasn't a pedestrian crossing - the pedestrian crossing was about 100m upstreet.
Muti 2009
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No, it wasn't a pedestrian crossing - the pedestrian crossing was about 100m upstreet.
Muti 2009
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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
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Pressing himself into the shadows of a carriage house, Jabey peered upstreet and down at the dark, massive forms of the istocrats’ castles.
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Pressing himself into the shadows of a carriage house, Jabey peered upstreet and down at the dark, massive forms of the istocrats’ castles.
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