uptown meaning: definition, quotations

uptown

noun

US /ˈʌptaʊn/

Canada, US The residential part of a city, away from the commercial center.

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

Charlotte / Douglas International Airport, a U.S. Air hub, is about twenty minutes from uptown and is the[…]1997 09, Cities of the United States: The South, Gale Cengage, →ISBN:
Charlotte has a number of museums that give visitors an insider's perspective on the region, most of which are […] in uptown, and the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Rd., […]2004 December 13, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2005 USA: With Coverage of Canada, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 411:

adj

Canada, US, Usually In the upper part of a town.

Canada, US, Broadly, Usually Of or relating to an affluent area or population.

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She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy1983, Billy Joel, “Uptown Girl”:

US, Usually In or of the central commercial center of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Thus when he raised hell and got a toilet in uptown Charlotte for Negroes, he was not regarded as an agitator but as a public-spirited citizen.1956, The Nation - Volume 182, page 188:
[…] he was operating a mobile unit in uptown Charlotte when he received a call at approximately 7:00 p.m. […]1975, North Carolina. Supreme Court, North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, page 259:

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[…] you might want to also check into Charlotte's uptown development corporation, which is a very similar set up[…]1997, Successes in Urban Problem-solving, Mayoral Perspectives: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittees on the District of Columbia of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight and the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives ... One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, March 11, 1997, page 83:
[…] in uptown Charlotte in this period.2000, Mary Norton Kratt, Mary Manning Boyer, Remembering Charlotte: Postcards from a New South City, 1905-1950:
[…] Charlotte staffed currently by 7,000 employees. Additionally, this bank has 6,000 or so employed uptown. Bank of America has in excess of 10,000 workers in uptown Charlotte and has opened a service center near High Point with another[…]2008, David Gordon Bennett, Jeffrey C. Patton, A Geography of the Carolinas, Parkway Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 131:
Charlotteans produced iron, tobacco, doors, spokes and handles, wagons, carriages, harnesses and marble works. And, on uptown streets, there were numerous saloons. Charlotte was known as "a bustling, prosperous city"[…]2009 April 28, Mary Kratt, Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History, History Press, →ISBN:

adv

US /ʌpˈtaʊn/

Canada, US, Usually To or in the upper part of a town.