UPPER SIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upper side mean? 

• UPPER SIDE (noun)
  The noun UPPER SIDE has 1 sense:

1. the highest or uppermost side of anything

  Familiarity information: UPPER SIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPPER SIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest or uppermost side of anything

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

top; top side; upper side; upside

Context example:

only the top side of the box was painted

Hypernyms ("upper side" is a kind of...):

face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "upper side"):

crest; crown (the center of a cambered road)

poll (the part of the head between the ears)

crown; pate; poll (the top of the head)

desktop (the top of a desk)

rooftop (the top of a (usually flat) roof)

tiptop (the extreme top or summit)

 Context examples 

The back or upper side of an animal.

(Dorsum, NCI Thesaurus)

The vessels carrying deoxygenated blood on the upper side of the foot that originate from the dorsal digital vein creating the dorsal venous arch.

(Dorsal Metatarsal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

Three years ago, this was nothing but a rough hedgerow along the upper side of the field, never thought of as anything, or capable of becoming anything; and now it is converted into a walk, and it would be difficult to say whether most valuable as a convenience or an ornament; and perhaps, in another three years, we may be forgetting—almost forgetting what it was before.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)