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1. (adj.) westerly
moving, directed, or situated toward the west.
2. westerly
(esp. of a wind) coming from the west.
3. (adv.) westerly
toward the west.
4. westerly
from the west.
5. (n.) westerly
a wind that blows from the west.
6. westerly
westerlies, (used with a pl. v.) any semipermanent belt of westerly winds, esp. those that prevail at latitudes lying between the tropical and polar regions of the earth.
Etymology: (1570–80; west+-erly, extracted from easterly)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) prevailing westerly, westerly
the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth
2. (adj) westerly, western
of wind; from the west
3. (adverb) westbound, westerly, westward
moving toward the west
"westbound pioneers"
4. (adverb) westerly
toward the west
"we began to steer away westerly"- Daniel Defoe
5. (adverb) westerly
from the west
"the wind blew westerly"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) Westerly
of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming from the west; western
2. (adverb) Westerly
toward the west; westward
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Sense: (of a wind, breeze etc) coming from the west
a westerly wind.
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 Afrikaans: westelik |
 Arabic: غَرْبي، من الغَرْب |
 Bulgarian: западен |
 Brazilian: vem do oeste |
 Czech: západní |
 German: West-... |
 Danish: vestlig; vesten- |
 Greek: δυτικός |
 Spanish: de oeste |
 Estonian: lääne- |
 Farsi: غربي |
 Finnish: läntinen |
 French: d'ouest |
 Hebrew: מַעֲרָבִי |
 Hindi: पछवां |
 Croatian: zapadni |
 Hungarian: nyugati |
 Indonesian: dari barat |
 Icelandic: vestanstæður |
 Italian: da ovest |
 Japanese: 西からの |
 Korean: 서쪽에서 불어오는 |
 Lithuanian: vakarinis, vakaris |
 Latvian: rietumu- |
 Malay: datang dari arah barat |
 Dutch: westen- |
 Norwegian: vestlig, fra vest, vestfr |
 Polish: zachodni |
 Portuguese: oeste |
 Romanian: vestic |
 Russian: западный; с запада |
 Slovak: západný |
 Slovenian: zahoden |
 Serbian: zapadni |
 Swedish: västlig |
 Thai: พัดมาจากทางทิศตะวันตก |
 Turkish: batıdan gelen/esen |
 Taiwanese: 從西邊來的 |
 Ukrainian: західний |
 Urdu: مغربی |
 Vietnamese: từ hướng tây |
 Chinese: 从西边来的 |
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