: the chiefly northerly sections of a state
also
: the chiefly rural part of a state when the major metropolitan area is in the south
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Laufey performed her final concert of the year a few weeks ago, and after Wednesday’s event was headed upstate to work on new music.
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Kristen Tauer, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
Our meetings on that trip were frigid affairs: I wasn’t invited to his house upstate, which would’ve been a logical stopping-off point on the way to Ithaca.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
In 2014, Shainman opened a 30,000-square-foot exhibition space, the School, in a former Kinderhook high school near his 235-acre farm upstate in Stuyvesant.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2024
In the past year and a half, the Baldwins have sold a house upstate for $530,000, listed their Hamptons home for more than $20 million, and bought a farmhouse in Vermont for $1.7 million.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 July 2024
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Kristen Tauer, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
Our meetings on that trip were frigid affairs: I wasn’t invited to his house upstate, which would’ve been a logical stopping-off point on the way to Ithaca.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
In 2014, Shainman opened a 30,000-square-foot exhibition space, the School, in a former Kinderhook high school near his 235-acre farm upstate in Stuyvesant.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2024
In the past year and a half, the Baldwins have sold a house upstate for $530,000, listed their Hamptons home for more than $20 million, and bought a farmhouse in Vermont for $1.7 million.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 July 2024
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“Upstate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upstate. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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upstate
adjective
up·state
ˈəp-ˌstāt 
: of, relating to, or typical of a part of a state away from a large city and especially to the north
upstate
noun or adverb
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