Uptown

  

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Uptown

Definition: Uptown

Uptown

Adjective

1. Of or located in the upper part of a town; "uptown residential areas".

Adverb

1. Toward or in the upper part of town.

Noun

1. A residential part of town away from the central commercial district.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "uptown" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

 

Antonym: downtown (adv). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Uptown

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yeah, we conjured up a hundred-foot marshmallow man, blew the top three floors off an uptown high-rise, and ended up getting sued by every city, county, and agency in New York (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Uptown, I believe (Live and Let Die; writing credit: Tom Mankiewicz)

Lyrics

She's been living in her uptown world (Uptown Girl; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Got it goin' on uptown (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

For an uptown boy (One More Try; performing artist: George Michael)

Where we at, uptown where its really at (Feelin' So Good; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

Uptown got it's hustlers (You Don't Mess Around With Jim; performing artist: Jim Croce)

Movie/TV Titles

Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

The Uptown Girl (1992)

Uptown Comedy Club (1992)

Song Titles

Uptown (performing artist: The Crystals)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Uptown

DomainTitle

Books

  • All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown (reference)

  • Magnolias Southern Cuisine: Uptown, Down South (reference)

  • Uptown (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner) (reference)

  • Uptown Poodle, Downtown Pups (All-American Puppies, 4) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Uptown

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Mounted policemen arresting burglars uptown in New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Plantation house, Uptown, New Orleans. Credit: Library of Congress.

Griffith Consumers Co. Exterior of Uptown Pharmacy, 3530 Connecticut Ave. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Uptown

"Uptown" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 72.22% of the time. "Uptown" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)72.22%2668,323
Adjective (general or positive)27.78%10111,207
                    Total100.00%36N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Uptown


1. Uptown, PA
Zip Code(s): 15219
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Uptown

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

uptown girl

196

uptown dallas

17

uptown

104

shoes uptown

16

trisha uptown

100

friday night uptown

16

uptown theater

81

cabaret uptown

15

city kansas theater uptown

54

uptown wholesale

14

clothing uptown

39

uptown charlotte

14

girl lyrics uptown

38

uptown apartment minneapolis

14

mix uptown

36

uptown saturday night

13

minneapolis uptown

35

mix nashville uptown

13

jimmys uptown

33

girl movie uptown

13

uptown comedy club

26

cinema uptown

12

nike sneaker uptown

22

billy girl joel lyrics uptown

12

kick uptown

21

palladium uptown

11

record uptown

21

uptown dallas apartment

11

chicago uptown

21

clothing uptown usa

11

comedy corner uptown

20

uptown whittier

11

art fair uptown

19

cafe jimmys uptown

10

nike uptown

19

sportswear uptown

9

sneaker uptown

17

uptown realty

9

spa uptown

17

cabaret charlotte uptown

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Uptown

Language Translations for "uptown"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pjesë e sipërme të qytetit, në pjesën e sipërme të qytetit. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الجزء الأعلى من المدينة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

в по-горната част на града. (various references)

   

Czech

  

od středu mìsta, bydlící v hořejší èásti mìsta. (various references)

   

Danish

  

sne (snow). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sneeuw (snow), lijntje (rope), coke (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

واقع درمحلات شمال شهر, بالای شهر. (various references)

   

French

  

Scotty, perico, neige, Julie, Dame Blanche, Corinne, coke, coco, Coca, cheublan, Charlie, blow, blanche, bernice. (various references)

   

German

  

Wohnviertel (residential, residential area, residential district, residential quarter). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κόκα (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coca bush, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), μακρυά από το κέντρο πόλεωσ, χιόνι (snow), εισ την άνω πόλη. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kint, kifelé (on the way out, out, outward, outwards), felvégi, felsõváros. (various references)

   

Italian

  

signora (gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam, missis, missus, mistress, mrs, Mrs., ms, signora, tradesman, wife, woman), quartieri residenziali, polvere di stelle (stardust), polver d'oro (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), neve (snow), madama (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), lei (her, herself, she, you), dama bianca (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

山手 (hillysection of a city), 山の手 (hillysection of a city). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

やまのて (hillysection of a city), やまて (hillysection of a city). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ownuptay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

neve (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), júlia (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), gulosa (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), da parte superior de uma cidade, coca (coca), cidade alta, branca (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

situat în partea de sus, centrul new-yorkului, în centru. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

верхняя часть города, в верхней части города, жилые кварталы. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u gornjem delu grada, gornji deo grada. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zona residencial (residential zone), polvo (dust, grit, jammed, powder, screw), periquito (budgerigar, budgie, love bird, parakeet), perico (parakeet, Pete), perica (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), nieve (snow), faslopa (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), de la zona residencial, dama blanca (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), coca (bun, Coca, coke, head, kink, Napper), charli (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, white girl, white lady), blanca (half note, minim). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

i stadens utkanter. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

şehrin yukarısındaki, şehrin yukarısına, şehrin yukarı kısmı, şehir dışında (downstate, upstate), şehir dışına (downstate, upstate). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розташований у верхній частині міста, верхня частина міста. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Uptown

Derivations

Words beginning with "uptown": uptowner, uptowners, uptowns. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Uptown" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Umpton, upto, uptorn, uton. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Uptown"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "uptown" (pronounced u"ptou"n)
3-t ou" ntown.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Uptown

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "n-o-p-t-u-w"

-1 letter: punto, puton.

-2 letters: nowt, pout, punt, town, unto, upon, wont.

-3 letters: not, now, nut, opt, out, own, pot, pow, pun, put, ton, top, tow, tun, tup, two, upo, won, wop, wot.

-4 letters: no, nu, on, op, ow, to, un, up, ut, wo.

 Words containing the letters "n-o-p-t-u-w"
 

+1 letter: putdown, uptowns.

 

+2 letters: putdowns, upthrown, uptowner.

 

+3 letters: downspout, uptowners.

 

+4 letters: downspouts, outweeping, upthrowing.

 

+5 letters: outpowering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Cities
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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