HIGHER UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does higher up mean? 

• HIGHER UP (adverb)
  The adverb HIGHER UP has 1 sense:

1. in or to a place that is higher

  Familiarity information: HIGHER UP used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHER UP (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In or to a place that is higher

Synonyms:

above; higher up; in a higher place; to a higher place

 Context examples 

We were both very much surprised, coming higher up, to find my outer door standing open (which I had shut) and to hear voices inside.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The brightness of the hardy carbon monoxide revealed that the planets' atmospheres burn hotter higher up than deeper down.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

“It’s not worth the trouble,” said the third; “let him live, he’ll go climbing higher up the mountain, and some cloud will come rolling and carry him away.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

After this drilling is completed, Curiosity will continue farther south and higher up Mount Sharp, leaving behind these spectacular formations.

(Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations, NASA)