uptown
chiefly North American
adjective /ˈʌptaʊn 
/
/1Of, in, or characteristic of the residential area of a town or city: uptown Manhattan an uptown bar...
- The whole crew was in an uptown bar, talking quietly.
- We have tracked down some of the more prominent residents in the uptown apartment building that had the nine-foot-wide nest of a red-tailed hawk removed the other day.
- The most common dog in Japan is making its way to the United States, taking up residence in uptown penthouses and becoming a fashion statement for the hip crowd in Greenwich Village or Chelsea.
1.1Of or characteristic of an affluent area or people: I don’t pay uptown prices...
- The wine list, again, was cheap compared to uptown prices and so we settled for a bottle of Brouilly at just under thirty bucks.
- You'd expect high prices like that in uptown nightclubs, not in a pokey little indie pub.
- Here's another uptown brasserie with downtown prices, aiming at the guests from the Central Park South hotels who may not want to pay the out-of-sight prices of the in-house eateries.
adverb /ʌpˈtaʊn /
/In or into an uptown area: he couldn’t get a taxi to take him back uptown...
- They walk through neighborhoods uptown.
- This resulted in three smaller marches uptown as protesters mainly ignored police warnings to stay on the sidewalk and instead spilled out onto the streets.
- For about a year, until I lost it putting out the trash, I had an expensive Hamilton watch that I wore on expeditions uptown, sliding it ostentatiously as far down wrist as it would go.
noun /ˈʌptaʊn /
/The uptown area of a town or city: Cambridge’s uptown...
- All of them watched as the dogs ran onto the train tracks that divided the ghetto from the uptown.
