1. [adv]  spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"
2. [adv]  to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"
3. [adj]  directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"

UPWARD is a 6 letter word that starts with U.

1. \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adv. [AS. upweardes. See
   {Up-}, and {-wards}.]
   1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher
      place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed
      to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. --I. Watts.
   
            Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking
            upward, we speak and prevail.         --Hooker.
   
   2. In the upper parts; above.
   
            Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down
            ward fish.                            --Milton.
   
   3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
   
            From twenty years old and upward.     --Num. i. 3.
   
   {Upward of}, or {Upwards of}, more than; above.
   
            I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of
            twenty years.                         --Shak.
   
   

2. \Up"ward\, a. [AS. upweard. See {Up}, and {-ward}.]
   Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with
   upward course.
   
   

3. \Up"ward\, n.
   The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
   
         From the extremest upward of thy head.   --Shak.