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Definition: Uptown |
UptownAdjective1. Of or located in the upper part of a town; "uptown residential areas". Adverb1. Toward or in the upper part of town. Noun1. 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) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 72.22% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27.78% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Uptown, PA |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "uptown": uptowner, uptowners, uptowns. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "uptown" (pronounced u"ptou"n) |
| 3 | -t ou" n | town. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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