a residential part of town away from the central commercial district
<noun.location> [ adj ]
of or located in the upper part of a town
<adj.all> uptown residential areas [ adv ]
toward or in the upper part of town
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Uptown \Up*town"\, adv. To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown. [Colloq. U. S.]
Uptown \Up"town`\, a. Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society. [Colloq. U. S.]
The difference between the strikes at Columbia University in Manhattan and the Sorbonne in Paris was that the rest of New York City barely noticed what was happening uptown at Columbia.
Kenneth Battelle, whose Manhattan beauty salon, Kenneth, is very uptown, calls nail art "simply horrifying."
Budd Hopkins's UFO tale, "Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods," which was mentioned here recently, has been generating a notably strange controversy uptown.
Long before the Rex and Zulu parades rolled, crowds jammed the uptown parade routes and staked out their positions with ladders and lawn chairs.
For a brief time, uptown department stores took ads in the Post.
He made it down the Hudson River to uptown Manhattan before he became exhausted.
Then she pulls on her long gray gloves, walks out into the spring sun and heads uptown for a four o'clock audition, for a real live acting role this time.
Democratic Party leaders, meeting today uptown from the White House, are formally endorsing Bush's decision to send troops to block Iraq's aggression in the Middle East.
So private labels are moving uptown to attract new customers.
He must leave home at 6:40 each morning, drive to the train station, ride to Manhattan, take the subway uptown and walk 15 minutes to his office.
"I learned a lot of accents like that," he said. "I speak a little French, I speak a little Spanish, a little uptown, a little downtown.
Over the years, he has proved the most intellectually engaging of the minimalists despite pressure from what Mr. Thomas describes as "the arbiters of musical fashion as to whether his works should be more 'uptown' or 'downtown.'