There is a bridge two miles upstream.
Source: tatoeba (72902)
Upstream
//ʌpˈstɹiːm//
Synonyms for "upstream" (26 found)
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1 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
4 entriesrelated to
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
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1 entriesTranslations
53 translations across 32 languages.
Ahtna
1 entries- naeʼ adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Bengali
1 entries- উজানে adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Bikol Central
1 entries- iraya adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Bulgarian
1 entries- срещу течението adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Burmese
1 entries- ရေဆန် adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Catalan
1 entries- contra corrent adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 上游 adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 上游 adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Danish
3 entries- opstrøms adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
- opstrøms adj (Biology : towards the 5' end of a DNA molecule)
- opstrøms adv (against the flow)
Dutch
2 entries- stroomopwaarts adj (upwards)
- stroomopwaarts adv (against the flow)
French
4 entries- amont adj (upwards)
- en amont adj (Biology : towards the 5' end of a DNA molecule)
- montant adj (upwards)
- à contre-courant adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
German
2 entries- stromaufwärts adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
- flussaufwärts adv (against the flow)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 上游 adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Hindi
1 entries- ऊपर को adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Hungarian
2 entries- 5’ irányban adj (Biology : towards the 5' end of a DNA molecule)
- gén előtt adj (Biology : towards the 5' end of a DNA molecule)
Indonesian
1 entries- hulu adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Irish
1 entries- in aghaidh srutha adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Italian
2 entries- a monte adj (Biology : towards the 5' end of a DNA molecule)
- a monte adj (upwards)
Japanese
2 entries- 川上 adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
- 川上 adv (against the flow)
Latin
1 entries- flūmine adversō adv (against the flow)
Malay
1 entries- hulu adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Māori
1 entries- whakarunga adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- oppstrøms adv (against the flow)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- oppstraums adv (against the flow)
Portuguese
3 entries- montante adj (upwards)
- à montante adj (Biology : towards the 5' end of a DNA molecule)
- montante adv (against the flow)
Romanian
3 entries- din amonte adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
- în amonte adv (against the flow)
- în contracurent adv (against the flow)
Russian
1 entries- вверх по течению adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ris an t-sruth adv (against the flow)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ùzvodno adv (against the flow)
- у̀зводно adv (against the flow)
Spanish
4 entries- a contracorriente adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
- aguas arriba adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
- corriente arriba adj (Biology : towards the 5' end of a DNA molecule)
- río arriba adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Swedish
1 entries- uppströms adv (against the flow)
Turkish
1 entries- akıntıya karşı adj (in a direction opposite to flow)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
I saw a boat upstream of the bridge.
Source: tatoeba (511934)
The Bakers have a farm upstream.
Source: tatoeba (6178807)
The trout swam upstream.
Source: tatoeba (6562046)
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