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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The upper part of a town or city.
  • adverb To, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or located uptown.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To or in the upper part of a town.
  • Situated in or belonging to the upper part of a town: as, an up-town residence.

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

  • adverb Colloq. U. S. To or in the upper part of a town.
  • adjective Colloq. U. S. Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city

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

  • noun the residential part of a city, away from the commercial center

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb toward or in the upper part of town
  • noun a residential part of town away from the central commercial district
  • adjective of or located in the upper part of a town

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