West

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wÉ›st/
• Rhymes: -É›st

Origin

From Old English west, from Proto-Germanic *westÄ…. Compare West Frisian and Dutch west, German West, Danish vest. Cognates include Old French west, French ouest, Spanish oeste, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest.

Full definition of west

Noun

1. One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox.

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• (compass point) east, north, south

Adjective

1. Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
2. (meteorology) Of wind: from the west.
3. Of or pertaining to the west; western.
4. From the West; occidental.

Adverb

1. Towards the west; westwards.

Verb

1. To move to the west; (of the sun) to set. from 15th c.
• 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.prologue:Foure times his place he shifted hath in sight,
  And twice has risen, where he now doth West,
  And wested twice, where he ought rise aright.

Anagrams

• stew, Stew
• wets