<p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.</li><li>toward a higher or more distinguished condition, rank, level, etc.: His employer wishes to move him upward in the company.</li><li>to a greater degree; more: fourscore and upward.</li><li>toward a large city, the source or origin of a stream, or the interior of a country or region: They followed the Thames River upward from the North Sea to London.</li><li>in the upper parts; above.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>moving or tending upward; directed at or situated in a higher place or position.</li></ul>