From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishupstateup‧state /ˈʌpsteɪt/ adjective [only before noun] American English SGin the northern part of a particular state OPP downstate upstate New York —upstate adverb
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upstate• Even now they were travelling through sparsely inhabited country as they headed further upstate.• I have to complete my contract and teach for a semester, which means commuting to upstate New York every week.• Her home was on an upstate New York farm.• Each day I write in the quiet of the upstate New York mornings.• But the anguished upstate New York social worker now finds himself waging a spirited campaign to keep his sibling from death row.• Born in 1882, Roosevelt came from an old-established and well-to-do landowning family of upstate New York.• During the 1980s it bought Marine Midland, a commercial bank based in upstate New York.• It was in upstate New York. 