upriver - Definition and Meaning

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(adverb)

definitions

at or towards a point nearer the source of a river

examples

the salmon head upriver to spawn

the main jetty is three-quarters of a mile upriver

Scarborough-on-Hudson, some 30 miles upriver from New York

no one lives upriver of our water intake

(adjective)

definitions

situated or occurring at a point nearer the source of a river

examples

they headed for the upriver side