westerly

comparative more westerly · superlative most westerly

1. usuallyComing from the west; originating in the west.

   a westerly wind

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   a westerly breeze

   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.

   2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), set in Maine, United States, during the 1890s with dialogue written to reflect the time period

   Synonyms: westly, ponent, eastward, eastbound · Antonyms: easterly, westward, westbound

2. Facing the west; directed towards the west.

   a westerly course

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   a westerly voyage

   Tall, blue-eyed, this proud and stubborn Genoese seaman first visited Portugal, proposing his scheme for a westerly voyage in search of the Indies.

   2002, Jaime Suchlicki, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 13

   Synonyms: westbound, westward, westly, ponent · Antonyms: eastbound, easterly, eastward

3. Located towards or in the west.

   the westerly side of the lake

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   The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.

   1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 594

   Synonyms: western, west, westward, westly, ponent · Antonyms: easterly, eastern, eastward

comparative more westerly · superlative most westerly

1. Towards the west.

   Synonyms: westward, westly

plural westerlies

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

   A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141

   Synonyms: zephyr

1. A town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States.
2. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.