uptown

plural uptowns

1. CanadaUScountableuncountableThe residential part of a city, which is usually away from the central business district.
2. UScountableuncountableThe 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

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   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

comparative further uptown · comparative farther uptown · comparative more uptown · superlative furthest uptown · superlative farthest uptown · superlative most uptown

1. CanadaUSnot comparableusuallyIn the upper part of a town.
2. CanadaUSbroadlynot comparableusuallyOf or relating to an affluent area or population.

   uptown problems

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   She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy

   1983, Billy Joel, “Uptown Girl”

3. USnot comparableusuallyIn or of the central commercial center of Charlotte, North Carolina.

   […] in uptown Charlotte in this period.

   2000, Mary Norton Kratt, Mary Manning Boyer, Remembering Charlotte: Postcards from a New South City, 1905-1950

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   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

   […] you might want to also check into Charlotte's uptown development corporation, which is a very similar set up[…]

   1997, Successes in Urban Problem-solving, Mayoral Perspectives: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittees on the District of Columbia of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight and the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives ... One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, March 11, 1997, page 83

   […] Charlotte staffed currently by 7,000 employees. Additionally, this bank has 6,000 or so employed uptown. Bank of America has in excess of 10,000 workers in uptown Charlotte and has opened a service center near High Point with another[…]

   2008, David Gordon Bennett, Jeffrey C. Patton, A Geography of the Carolinas, Parkway Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 131

   Charlotteans produced iron, tobacco, doors, spokes and handles, wagons, carriages, harnesses and marble works. And, on uptown streets, there were numerous saloons. Charlotte was known as "a bustling, prosperous city"[…]

   2009 April 28, Mary Kratt, Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History, History Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms: downtown

comparative further uptown · comparative farther uptown · comparative more uptown · superlative furthest uptown · superlative farthest uptown · superlative most uptown

1. CanadaUSnot comparableusuallyTo or in the upper part of a town.

   Let's go uptown and try out that new restaurant.

1. The central business district of Charlotte, North Carolina.

   Its proximity to Uptown and Bank of America Stadium ensures that this park has many visitors in addition to the regular neighborhood users.

   2025 December 2, Jason Frye, Moon Travel Guides, Moon North Carolina: With Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Blue Ridge Parkway, Coastal Getaways, Craft Beer & BBQ, Moon Travel, →ISBN

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   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 Charlotte Checkers minor-league hockey team, and a host of college basketball tournaments and nationally touring concerts.

   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