upstate
/ˈʌpsteɪt
/US
adjective & adverb
Of, in, or to a part of a state remote from its large cities, especially the northern part: [as adjective]: upstate New York...
- It doesn't matter so much in New York City, but upstate it's a problem.
- The city's intransigence has hardened already hard upstate opposition.
- The network spans southern upstate New York, Long Island, northern New Jersey and Connecticut.
noun
An upstate area: visiting farmers from upstate...
- If you actually look at the area of South Carolina where she is doing a little bit better than him, it's up in the upstate.
- I want to congratulate him on winning 70 percent of the vote here in the upstate of South Carolina.
- I had no idea where we were at the time, but we were definitely in the upstate.
Derivatives
upstater
- One solution advanced by some upstaters has been to tell New York City to generate more power of its own.
- City residents commonly believe that upstaters are uneducated, lower-class people who do not care about the environment.
- So when upstaters and downstaters talk today about the need to cut costs to grow the economy, it's as though they're living in two different worlds.