Meaning & use
Upriver
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Toward or near the source of a river; upstream.
See it in a sentence
The boat chugged slowly upriver against the current.
The village lies about ten miles upriver from the coast.
A note on using this word
Can function as both an adverb ('travel upriver') and an adjective ('an upriver town').
Words with a similar meaning
upstream
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Words with an opposite meaning
downriverdownstream
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Situated closer to the source of a river.
They settled in an upriver community far from the busy port.
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