uptown

adjective up·town \ ˈəp-ˈtau̇n \

|Updated on: 11 Aug 2018

Definition of uptown

1 : of or relating to uptown

an uptown restaurant

2 : fashionably upscale

an uptown dress

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uptown

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Just south of uptown Charlotte construction continued at The Railyard Southend on Tuesday, July 10, 2018.

— deon roberts, jim morrill and hannah lang, charlotteobserver, "From breweries to the farm, Trump tariff war produces winners and losers in Charlotte," 12 July 2018
The Centric Gateway apartments in uptown Charlotte were sold this month for $68.75 million, developer Dominion Realty Partners said.

— ely portillo, charlotteobserver, "A multimillion-dollar deal shows why Charlotte’s apartment boom is still going strong," 13 July 2018
Energy veteran Ron Ormand, who already was Lilis' executive chairman, took over as CEO in April and opted to move the headquarters to 1800 Bering Drive near uptown Houston.

— jordan blum, Houston Chronicle, "Lilis Energy moves to Houston, grows in Permian," 27 June 2018
The police report on the incident said the bus was taking people to a bar in uptown Charlotte from an off-campus house.

— mark becker, ajc, "Party bus carrying UNCC student who fell to her death had no insurance, fake tags," 7 May 2018
Whereas Ouest’s curved red leather booths conveyed a timeless, uptown glamour, the tin ceiling and worn wood floors at Oxbow seem to aim at shabby chic.

— hannah goldfield, The New Yorker, "Tom Valenti Returns with Oxbow Tavern, and Gimmicks to Go at Lucky Pickle," 21 June 2018
Closer to the waterfront, the town’s Funk Zone has gone more uptown (insert Bruno Mars joke here), while retaining its didn’t-that-tasting-room-used-to-be-a-muffler-shop street cred.

— peter fish, SFChronicle.com, "Wandering Santa Barbara’s wonders more carefree when you’re car-free," 15 June 2018
But in 2011, Kushner put the apartment on the market for $4.1 million and the couple moved uptown to a four-bedroom penthouse at Trump Park Avenue, the erstwhile Delmonico Hotel on the corner of Park and 59th Street.

— sam dangremond, Town & Country, "A Peek Inside the Homes of the Presidential Candidate's Children," 24 May 2016
The company owns Scottsdale hot spots Bottled Blonde, Hi-Fi Kitchen + Cocktails, Bevvy and RnR Gastropub, as well as uptown Phoenix's Stock & Stable and the bar hidden above it, Honor Amongst Thieves.

— lorraine longhi, azcentral, "Luxury homes: Restaurant/club owners buy $4.4M Paradise Valley mansion," 21 May 2018

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First Known Use of uptown

1796

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uptown

noun up·town \ ˈəp-ˌtau̇n \

Definition of uptown

: the upper part of a town or city; especially : the residential district

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Brooklyn was the name of a historically African-American neighborhood in uptown that sat on land now largely occupied by local government buildings and a quiet park.

— ely portillo, charlotteobserver, "Massive redevelopment in uptown Charlotte takes a step closer to becoming reality," 10 July 2018
In the morning, Ms. Rockburne, a single mother, would bring her daughter uptown to school at Dalton.

— phyllis tuchman, New York Times, "Dorothea Rockburne’s Ephemeral Art and Enduring Legacy," 4 May 2018
In the Big Apple, Midtown is that swath of the island between downtown and uptown.

— john kelly, Washington Post, "A new D.C. building is coining a new neighborhood name — or resurrecting one," 19 June 2018
As a parting gesture, Kyle offered to drive us uptown in his BMW.

— melanie caduhada, The Cut, "That Time My Ex Tried to Buy Me Out of Our Cat," 19 June 2018
The lines have moved over to the new uptown Whole Foods (although at lunch on Tuesday, there were still enough people piling into Shake Shack to stretch out the door).

— kathleen purvis, charlotteobserver, "Waiting in line at Shake Shack? There’s a better burger and shake (and it’s cheaper)," 14 June 2018
After a lunch at the Brook Club, the crowd headed uptown to Dorrian's; the bar that's become a preppy landmark was decked out with kitschy gear including sunglasses, balloons, and packs of Marlboros.

— sam dangremond, Town & Country, "Topper Mortimer and Tabitha Simmons Wed in New York City—and Had Their After-Party at Dorrian's," 11 June 2018
The man was a ceramic-pottery instructor at a studio uptown.

— weike wang, The New Yorker, "Omakase," 6 June 2018
The exhibit opens to the public on Thursday and spreads across 25 galleries and 60,000 square feet from the Met Fifth Avenue to the Met Cloisters uptown.

— cara kelly, USA TODAY, "'Heavenly Bodies' is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s largest, most ambitious exhibit to date," 9 May 2018

First Known Use of uptown

1844

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: the upper part of a city or town : the part of a city or town that is away from the central part

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: to, toward, or in what is thought of as the upper part of a town or city

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