westerly
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See also: Westerly
Pronunciation
Adjective
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.
Synonyms
Related terms
- (wind): wester
Translations
to/from the west
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Adverb
westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)
- Towards the west.
towards the west
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Usage notes
Used by land surveyors when they do not want to or cannot say specifically "west".
Synonyms
Noun
westerly (plural westerlies)
- A westerly wind or storm, one blowing or coming from the west.
Synonyms
Translations
wind blowing from the west
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