westerly

See also: Westerly

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛs.tə(ɹ).li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛs.tɚ.li/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Adjective

westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

1. 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.

2. Located towards or in the west.

   the westerly side of a lake

3. (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

• ponent
• westly

Related terms

• (wind): wester

Translations

to/from the west

• Bulgarian: западен (zapaden)
• Danish: vestlig (da)
• Esperanto: okcidenta
• Georgian: დასავლეთის (dasavletis), დასავლეთით (dasavletit), დასავლეთისკენ (dasavletisḳen), დასავლეთიდან (dasavletidan)
• German: westlich (de)
• Italian: occidentale (it)
• Latin: occidentālis (la) m or f, occidentāle n
• Russian: за́падный (ru) m (západnyj)
• Swedish: västlig (sv)
• Ukrainian: за́хідний (uk) m (záxidnyj)

Adverb

westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

1. Towards the west.

towards the west

• Esperanto: okcidenten (eo)

Usage notes

Used by land surveyors when they do not want to or cannot say specifically "west".

Synonyms

• westly

Noun

westerly (plural westerlies)

1. A westerly wind or storm, one blowing or coming from the west.

Synonyms

• zephyr

Translations

wind blowing from the west

• Bulgarian: западен вятър m (zapaden vjatǎr)
• Danish: vestenvind (da) c
• Georgian: დასავლეთის ქარი (dasavletis kari)
• German: Westwind (de) m
• Maori: hauārahi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vestavind (no) m

  Nynorsk: vestavind m

• Ottoman Turkish: باتی (batı)
• Russian: за́падный ве́тер m (západnyj véter)

Derived terms

• north-westerly, northwesterly
• south-westerly, southwesterly

Anagrams

• sweltery