Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Canada, US, countable, uncountable)The residential part of a city, which is usually away from the central business district.

    Wohngebiet

    a residential part of town away from the central commercial district

  2. (US, countable, uncountable)The commercial center of town (in Charlotte, North Carolina).

Examples

3 sentences

  1. We're taking a class on disaster preparedness uptown.

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  2. I drove uptown.

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  3. Tom lives uptown.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the residential part of a city:

Forms

plural: uptowns
Singularuptown
Pluraluptowns

regular

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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