What does upstate mean?

Definitions for upstate
ˈʌpˈsteɪtup·state

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. upstateadverb

    in or toward the northern parts of a state

    "he lives upstate New York"

Wiktionary

  1. upstateadverb

    to, or from the northern section of a state

    He drove upstate to visit his mother.

  2. upstateadjective

    of the northern section of a state

    They went hunting in upstate New York.

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  1. upstate

    Upstate generally refers to the part of a state that is further north or further from the major metropolitan areas. The specific interpretation can vary by region, state, and context. It is commonly used to refer to rural or less populated areas. For example, in New York, 'upstate' typically refers to any part of the state outside of the New York City metropolitan area.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of upstate in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of upstate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of upstate in a Sentence

  1. William Timmons:

    He is going to be on the front page of papers all over this planet if he is your congressman, businesses are not going to come here if he is your next congressman. He is going to say things that y’all do not agree with. He is going to say things that embarrass you, and it is going to cause problems for the Upstate.

  2. Erik Jensen:

    I’ve done that numerous times in my life, where I acted on impulse and emotion, you don’t always think things through. Things might have looked cool and exciting, but in the long run, she not only hurt herself, but she hurt her family and a whole community in upstate New York. It wasn’t a happy ending.

  3. Andrew Cuomo:

    Some regions upstate have a problem that's comparable with parts of the Midwest.

  4. Trisha Constantine:

    There's actually a website called gobacktoOhio.com, maybe it's because I live upstate, but there are a lot of people from Greenville who didn't grow up here. There's a European base and people from the Midwest.

  5. Rich Azzopardi:

    Moreover, when the pandemic wave hits upstate New York, the governor will ask downstate hospitals for similar help, we are not upstate or downstate we are one state and we act that way.

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