(AmE) in or to the parts of a town or city that are away from the centre:
They live in an apartment uptown. * We walked uptown a couple of blocks until we found a cab.
compareDOWNTOWN, MIDTOWN
uptown adjective [onlybeforenoun]:
an uptown district / train
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