ponent

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/ˈpəʊnənt/

noun

The west; the area of the setting sun.

Similar
occidentwest
Opposite
orienteastlevant
OriginItalian ponente →
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Meanings

nounponent (plural ponents)

plural ponents

  1. The west; the area of the setting sun.

    Synonyms: occident, west · Antonyms: orient, east, levant

adjectiveponent (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to the west, westerly.

    Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, Eurus and Zephyr

    1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC
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    There was an ambiguity surpassing conjecture in her eyes, and the wind rose up around us in that half barbaric Russian garden with its alien Diana blackened by snows and fierce ponent winds

    1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe west; the area of the setting sun.

Similar
occidentwest
Opposite
orienteastlevant
Also see
occidentwesterly

Origin

  1. Italianponente“west”
  2. Englishponent

Borrowed from Italian ponente (“west”), ultimately from pōnēns, present participle of pōnō (“to place”).

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APA

ponent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ponent

MLA

“ponent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ponent. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ponent,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ponent.

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