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Definition of Upper
Upper

Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.

The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.

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Upper Quotations

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Nathaniel Parker Willis

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Virgil

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Upper Translations

upper in Dutch is bovenste
upper in German is oberer, Ober, obere
upper in Portuguese is superior


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