单词 | upstreet |
释义 | upstreetadv. In later use colloquial or regional (chiefly U.S.). Up or along the street; in, into, or towards the upper part of the street, the higher part of a town, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adverb] > fashionable part upstreet1609 up-town1802 1609 Cries of Rome in T. Heywood Rape Lucrece (new ed.) sig. K2 Thus go the cries in Romes faire towne, First they go vp street, and then they go downe. 1701 J. Crook Design Christianity 12 Then I resolved..to go that time which way I should be moved or enclined in my Spirit, whether it was up Street, or down Street, East or West, [etc.]. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 199 He began..to look out for a wife, up street and down... The down~street lady was a widow. 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. xiv. 308 A retired miller who had died of dropsy ‘up street’. 1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iv. iii. 151 I ran into him upstreet this afternoon and he was meek as pie. 2004 New Yorker 14 June 148/3 ‘So—you went upstreet today’, Sam said. (Had he always said ‘upstreet’? Sam and Juliet said ‘uptown’). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adv.1609 |
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