uptown

Noun

uptown (countable and uncountable, plural uptowns)

1. (Canada, US) The residential part of a city, which is usually away from the central business district.
2. (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

Adjective

uptown (not generally comparable, comparative further uptown or farther uptown or more uptown, superlative furthest uptown or farthest uptown or most uptown)

1. (Canada, US, not comparable, usually) In the upper part of a town.
2. (Canada, US, broadly, not comparable, usually) Of or relating to an affluent area or population.
   • uptown problems
   • She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy1983, Billy Joel, “Uptown Girl”
3. (US, not comparable, 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

   Synonyms:

   downtown

Adverb

US/ʌpˈtaʊn/

uptown (not generally comparable, comparative further uptown or farther uptown or more uptown, superlative furthest uptown or farthest uptown or most uptown)

1. (Canada, US, not comparable, usually) To or in the upper part of a town.
   • Let's go uptown and try out that new restaurant.

Proper noun capitalized: Uptown

Uptown

1. The central business district of Charlotte, North Carolina.
   • On weekends the historic Charlotte Trolley runs from Atherton Mill in South End, through a tunnel inside the Charlotte Convention Center in Uptown, and all the way up to Ninth Street. […] Charlotte Bobcats Arena opened on Trade Street in Uptown. It is home to the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats, the...2010 July 13, Craig Distl, Insiders' Guide® to Charlotte, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 33, 41
   • Corporations were moving to Charlotte, and developers were buying rundown buildings in Uptown and replacing them with condominiums. But many low-income people still lived in Uptown and surrounding areas.2019, China Brotsky, Sarah Mendelson Eisinger, Diane Vinokur-Kaplan, Shared Space and the New Nonprofit Workplace, →ISBN, page 38
2. A neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

   Synonyms:

   Bluff