westerly
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See also: Westerly
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɛs.tə(ɹ).li/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈwɛs.tɚ.li/
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Adjective[edit]
westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)
- Facing the west; directed towards the west.
- a westerly course or voyage
- 2002, Jaime Suchlicki, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 13:
- Tall, blue-eyed, this proud and stubborn Genoese seaman first visited Portugal, proposing his scheme for a westerly voyage in search of the Indies.
- Located towards or in the west.
- the westerly side of a lake
- (of wind) Coming from the west.
- a westerly wind
- 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
- Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.
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Related terms[edit]
- (wind): wester
Translations[edit]
to/from the west
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Adverb[edit]
westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)
- Towards the west.
Usage notes[edit]
Used by land surveyors when they do not want to or cannot say specifically "west".
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Noun[edit]
westerly (plural westerlies)
- A westerly wind or storm, one blowing or coming from the west.
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Translations[edit]
wind blowing from the west
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