West
See also: west
English
Proper noun
West
- The Western world; the regions, primarily situated in the Western Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Europe.
- (historical) the Western Bloc (the noncommunist countries of Europe and America)
- (US) The Western United States in the 19th century era of terrestrial expansion; the Wild West.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
- The western states of the United States.
- The European Union; a Western Region that is primarily an economic and political Bloc that covers 28 member states.
- Regions or countries lying to the west of a specified or implied point of orientation.
- The western part of any region.
- Senegal is a nation that lies in the West.
- The one of four positions at 90-degree intervals that lies to the west or at the left of a diagram.
- A person (as a bridge player) occupying this position during a specified activity.
- Lua error in Module:names at line 633: dot= and nodot= are no longer supported in Template:surname because a trailing period is no longer added by default; if you want it, add it explicitly after the template for a newcomer from the west, or someone who lived to the west of a village.
Derived terms
Translations
Western world
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Western block, Western Europe
Western Europe, non-Cold War concept
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Western states of the United States
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Anagrams
German
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Etymology
From Old High German west, from Proto-Germanic *westrą. Compare Dutch, English, and West Frisian west, Danish vest.
Pronunciation
Noun
West m (genitive Wests or West, no plural)
- the west (used without article; a short form of Westen)
- der Wind kommt aus West
- the wind is coming from the west
- der Wind kommt aus West
- a wind coming from the west (used with article)
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