up

Meaning

Adv

1. (not-comparable) Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
2. (not-comparable) Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
3. (not-comparable) Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
4. (figuratively, not-comparable) Indicating movement towards or location at a higher place or position.
5. (not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
6. (not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
7. (not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
8. (not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
9. (UK, dated, not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
10. (not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
11. (not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
12. (not-comparable) Indicating movement in any other direction visualised as "up".
13. (not-comparable) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
14. (emphatic, intensifier, not-comparable) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
15. (not-comparable) To one's possession or consideration.
16. (not-comparable) From one's possession or consideration.
17. (not-comparable) Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
18. (not-comparable) Relatively close to the batsman.
19. (US, not-comparable) Without additional ice.

Prep

1. Toward the top of.
2. Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
3. From south to north of.
4. Further along (in any direction).
5. From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
6. (slang, vulgar) Of a person: having sex with.
7. (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Facing upwards.
2. (not-comparable) On or at a physically higher level.
3. (not-comparable) Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
4. (not-comparable) Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
5. (broadly, not-comparable) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
6. (not-comparable) Aloft.
7. (not-comparable) Raised; lifted.
8. (not-comparable) Built, constructed.
9. (not-comparable) Standing; upright.
10. (not-comparable, obsolete) Risen up, rebelling, in revolt.
11. (not-comparable) Awake and out of bed.
12. (not-comparable) Riding the horse; mounted.
13. (not-comparable) Above the horizon, in the sky.
14. (not-comparable) Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
15. (not-comparable) Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
16. (not-comparable) Ahead; leading; winning.
17. (not-comparable, predicative) Finished, to an end
18. (not-comparable) In a good mood.
19. (not-comparable) Willing; ready.
20. (not-comparable) Next in a sequence.
21. (not-comparable, predicative) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
22. (not-comparable, postpositional) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
23. (not-comparable) Well-informed; current.
24. (not-comparable) Functional; working.
25. (not-comparable) Traveling towards a major terminus.
26. (US, not-comparable) Chilled and served without ice.
27. (not-comparable, slang) Erect.
28. (UK, dated, not-comparable) At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
29. (not-comparable, slang) well-known; renowned

Noun

1. (uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
2. (countable) A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
3. (countable, particle, uncountable) An up quark.
4. (countable, uncountable) An upstairs room of a two story house.

Verb

1. (in-certain-phrases, poetic, transitive) To physically raise or lift.
2. (colloquial, transitive) To increase the level or amount of.
3. (colloquial, transitive) To promote.
4. (in-compounds, intransitive, often) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
5. (archaic, intransitive, poetic) To ascend; to climb up.
6. (slang, transitive) To upload.

Synonyms

above

upwards

upward

high

over

on

🔛

on top

upstairs

upon

rise

raise

overhead

out

high up

north

go up

on top of

ascend

upwardly

uphill

by

towards

upstream

higher

near

to

improving

ascending

spent

top

🔝

upheave

bump up

elevate

along

available

in order

rear

at the top

down

increase

at hand

lift

hoist

forth

at

get up

ahead

rise in price

astir

finished

Translations

arriba

omhoog

op

🆙

su

🆙

oben

en haut

hinauf

🆙

hacia arriba

aufwärts

auf

opwaarts

πάνω

empor

🆙

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʌp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: up

Inherited from Old English: upp

In summary

From Middle English up, op, oup, from Old English upp, up, ūp (“up”), from Proto-West Germanic *upp, *ūp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, *eup (“up”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian ap (“up”), West Frisian op (“up”), Dutch op (“up”), German Low German up, op (“up”), German auf (“up”), Danish op (“up”), Swedish upp (“up”), Icelandic upp (“up”), Gothic 𐌹𐌿𐍀 (iup, “up”).

Sentences

Why , he would eat us all up .

It was early morning when she woke up .

" I can clean up those glasses in the window , if you want ," said the boy .

And up a dime .

Mary told me that she got to meet up with you while she was back in San Francisco .

My cat laid there , soaking up the sunlight .