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1 a: higher in physical position, rank, or order b: farther inland <the ~ Mississippi> 2: constituting the branch of a bicameral legislature that is usu. smaller and more restricted in membership and possesses greater traditional prestige than the lower house 3 a: constituting a stratum relatively near the earth's surface b cap: being a later epoch or series of the period or series named <Upper Cretaceous> <Upper Paleolithic> 4: northern <~ Manhattan> [2]upper n (1789): one that is upper: as a: the parts of a shoe or boot above the sole b: an upper tooth or denture c: an upper berth -- on one's uppers : in straitened circumstances: destitute |