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

  • A city of southern California east of Los Angeles at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.

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Examples

  • UPLAND - The victim of a deadly apartment complex shooting in Upland on Tuesday night was a gang member, police said.

    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Most Viewed 2009

  • UPLAND - A group of Minuteman Project members complained to city officials after a recent argument with an Upland business owner and police over a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

    Whittier Daily News Most Viewed 2009

  • Maria Ester was born in Upland California in 1910 when the small community was just an agricultural rural town that grew fruits and grapes.

    Wendy Carrillo: 100 Years Old and Voting! Wendy Carrillo 2010

  • Maria Ester was born in Upland California in 1910 when the small community was just an agricultural rural town that grew fruits and grapes.

    Wendy Carrillo: 100 Years Old and Voting! Wendy Carrillo 2010

  • Maria Ester was born in Upland California in 1910 when the small community was just an agricultural rural town that grew fruits and grapes.

    Wendy Carrillo: 100 Years Old and Voting! Wendy Carrillo 2010

  • Maria Ester was born in Upland California in 1910 when the small community was just an agricultural rural town that grew fruits and grapes.

    Wendy Carrillo: 100 Years Old and Voting! Wendy Carrillo 2010

  • The Meadows is about fifty miles away in a small hamlet called Upland Station, but I remember that no buses go there.

    Midnight Whispers V.C. ANDREWS 1992

  • It was soon perceived that the cotton raised on these islands was far superior to that produced in the interior, which is still called Upland, only to distinguish it from the 'Sea Island.'

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • They left for Upland, which is three or four miles from there on the same side of the river, in the same boat in which we came.

    Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898

  • On August 24th, therefore, they swore fealty and obedience to him as administrator of the kingdom -- "in like manner," add the chronicles, "as had formerly been done in Upland"; whence they seem to have assumed that he had already been acknowledged as such in Upper Sweden, here called Upland, as we often find it in the chronicles of the Middle Age.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

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