upward

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adv. In, to, or toward a higher place, level, or position: flying upward.
2. adv. Toward a higher position in a hierarchy or on a socioeconomic scale: a young executive moving upward fast.
3. adv. To or toward the source, origin, or interior.
4. adv. Toward the head or upper parts: bare from the waist upward.
5. adv. Toward a higher amount, degree, or rank: Prices soared upward.
6. adv. Toward a later time or age: from adolescence upward.
7. adj. Directed toward a higher place or position: upward movement.
8. idiom. upward More than; in excess of: "the onslaught of upwards of seventy divisions” ( Winston S. Churchill).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Directed or turned to a higher place; having an ascending direction, literally or figuratively.
2. n. The top; the height.
3. Toward a higher place; in an ascending course: opposed to downward.
4. Toward heaven and God.
5. With respect to the higher part; in the upper parts.
6. Toward the source or origin: as, trace the stream upward.
7. More: used indefinitely.
8. On; onward.

Wiktionary

1. adv. 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.
2. adv. In the upper parts; above.
3. adv. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
4. adv. Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
5. n. obsolete The upper part; the top.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adv. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward.
2. adv. In the upper parts; above.
3. adv. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
4. adj. Directed toward a higher place.
5. n. obsolete The upper part; the top.

WordNet 3.0

1. adv. to a later time
2. adj. directed up
3. adv. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
4. adj. extending or moving toward a higher place