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# upriver

«upriver» in Mova's school dictionary: **towards the source of a river, against the flow of the water** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (upriver); adjective (upriver)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Upriver means towards the source of a river, against the flow of the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upriver/#m1)

2) Upriver also means at a place further up the river from where you are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upriver/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography: rivers flow from the source to the mouth, so going upriver means going towards the source, often uphill. In history and stories: explorers paddling upriver, salmon swimming upriver to lay eggs. Close to «upstream»; opposite «downriver».

### examples

- Salmon swim upriver to lay their eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upriver/#x1)
- The explorers paddled upriver for days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upriver/#x2)
- The village is a mile upriver from the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upriver/#x3)
- Rowing upriver is harder than rowing down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upriver/#x4)
- Pollution from a factory upriver killed the fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upriver/#x5)
- We took an upriver boat trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upriver/#x6)

### note

Opposite: «downriver». Similar to «upstream». Upriver means against the current, not always north: some rivers flow north.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «upriver» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/upriver/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.