Wester

adj, name, noun, verb

adj, name, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.
  2. 2
    wind that blows from west to east wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To move towards the west

    "My sun is westering, and the lengthening shadows remind me to work while it is day."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Western, westerly. dialectal, not-comparable

    "This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]"

  2. 2
    comparative form of west: more west comparative, form-of, not-comparable

    "President-elect Nixon [...] pointed out that Alaska is even wester than Hawaii. [...] had Mr. Nixon searched just a few leagues wester our Secretary of the Interior might have turned out to be a citizen of Kichighinsk. Nor is there anything in the history of the United States that validates the presupposition that anyone who is wester than anybody is simultaneously and necessatily more interior than anybody."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms
easterlylevantermistralnorth windnortherwest

Example

More examples

"“This is the climate crisis you haven’t heard of,” said Philippus Wester."

Etymology

From west + -er.

Related phrases

Wester HailesWester HailesWester Ross

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