westerly
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.
- 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.
- 1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 594:
- The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.
- (of wind) Coming from the west.
- 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.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to/from the west
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Adverb
[edit]westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)
- Towards the west.
- Synonym: westward
Usage notes
[edit]Used by land surveyors when they do not want to or cannot say specifically "west".
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]towards the west
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Noun
[edit]westerly (plural westerlies)
- A westerly wind or storm, one blowing or coming from the west.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:
- A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]wind blowing from the west
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