up

Pronunciation: /ʌp/

The English word “up” has 20 meanings listed here.

adverb

Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
To an upright or erect position.
To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).
Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as ‘up’ by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
To university, especially to Cambridge or Oxford.
Against the wind or current.
Towards the source of a river, against the direction of flow.
In a positive vertical direction.
To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
To one's possession or consideration.
From one's possession or consideration.
Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
Relatively close to the batsman.
Without additional ice.

preposition

Toward the top of.

Etymology

From Middle English up, op, oup, from Old English upp, up, ūp (“up”), from Proto-West Germanic *upp, *ūp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, *eup (“up”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ap (“up”), West Frisian op (“up”), Dutch op (“up”), German Low German up, op (“up”), German auf (“up”), Danish op (“up”), Swedish upp (“up”), Icelandic upp (“up”), Gothic 𐌹𐌿𐍀 (iup, “up”).

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