| 单词 | or upwards |
| 释义 | > as lemmasor upwards b. Usually and upwards, or upwards. Frequently = somewhat more or rather above a specified age, number, value, size, etc. = upward adv. 7b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adverb] > advancing in age upwardc1530 up1535 and upwards1570 upwardsa1807 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > rather more than and morec1230 and (also or) upward1555 and upwards1570 upward of1623 upwards of1721 rising1808 the rise of1834 (a) (b)1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift A 3 Ioyning..their daughters of twentye yeares olde or vnder, to rich cormorants of threescore or vpwards.1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Ffff2v/1 It amounts to ten Pounds, or upwards.1709 London Gaz. No. 45021/2 A Ship of 70 Guns, or upwards.1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 74 A solution of soda..which contains two per cent. or upwards of alkali.1861 Brit. Postal Guide 28 Messengers, whose weekly wages..are..8s. or upwards.1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2268/2 Hussy. How old art thou? Eliz. Forty and vpwardes. 1612 Sir D. Carleton in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 572 Diverse companies to the number of 700 men and upwards. 1693 R. Lyde True Acct. Retaking of Ship (title page) Their Majesties Customs of the said ship amounted to 1,000 l. and upwards. 1717 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 31 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 Robert Robertson..aged ffifty years and upwards. 1729 T. Innes Crit. Ess. Anc. Inhabitants Scotl. II. 578 Within these last hundred years, and upwards. 1818 S. Weston La Scava 25 Eighty whetstones and upwards..have been found. 1839 C. H. Timperley Dict. Printers 105 All above 52 Pica ems, upon Small Pica and upwards. 1887 Daily Chron. 17 Jan. (Encycl. Dict.) Some of them worth as much as £30 and upwards. < as lemmas |
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