Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Upward

Upward , adverb

[Anglo-Saxon upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.]

1.
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. — I. Watts
Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. — Hooker
2.
In the upper parts; above.
Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. — Milton
3.
Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
From twenty years old and upward. — Num. i. 3
I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. — Shakespeare
Collocations (1)
Upward of or Upwards of , more than; above.

Also: Upwards

Upward , adjective

[Anglo-Saxon upweard. See Up, and -ward.]

Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

Upward , noun

The upper part; the top. [Obsolete]
From the extremest upward of thy head. — Shakespeare