Similar words: upstart, upstair, upstage, upstairs, upstanding, upstream, state, stater. Meaning: adv. in or toward the northern parts of a state.
61. I get her up to 160 when I take her upstate.
62. But because there are plenty of common katydids in upstate New York and in other parts of New England, it's hard to get funding for a katydid survey in New York City.
More similar words: upstart, upstair, upstage, upstairs, upstanding, upstream, state, stater, stated, States, estate, confederate states, in state, stately, restate, gestate, misstate, prostate, apostate, devastate, overstate, statesman, statewide, estate tax, statehood, city state, city-state, intestate, state bank, reinstate.