[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

upward \up"ward\, upwards \up"wards\, adv. as. upweardes. see
   up-, and -wards.
   1913 webster
   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.
      1913 webster

            looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking
            upward, we speak and prevail.         --hooker.
      1913 webster

   2. in the upper parts; above.
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            dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
            and down ward fish.                   --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
      1913 webster

            from twenty years old and upward.     --num. i. 3.
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   upward of, or upwards of, more than; above.
      1913 webster

            i have been your wife in this obedience
            upward of twenty years.               --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
up- -wards upward of upwards of 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

upwards
     adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher
            position; "look up"; "the music surged up"; "the
            fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards";
            "upwardly mobile" syn: up, upward, upwardly
            ant: down, down, down, down
     2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from
        childhood upward" syn: up, upward
see also:
up upward upwardly down 

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