uptown

Other forms of uptown

plural

uptowns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about uptown

What does uptown mean?

uptown means "a residential part of town away from the central commercial district". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uptown?

uptown has 2 syllables: up-town. The stress falls on "up". In IPA it is /ˈʌpˈtaʊn/.

What is the opposite of uptown?

The recorded antonyms are downtown, downtown.

Is uptown a common word?

uptown is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with uptown?

18 words rhyme with uptown. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.