west

From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-Germanic *westrą. Cognate with Scots wast, Saterland Frisian Saterland Frisian Wääste, West Frisian west, Dutch west, German West, Danish vest. Cognate also with Old French west, French ouest, Spanish oeste, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest (all ultimately borrowings of the English word). Compare also Latin vesper.

• enPR: wĕst, IPA^(key): /wɛst/

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west (uncountable)

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, abbreviated as W.

• (compass point): east, north, south

Also see Appendix:Cardinal directions for translations of all compass points

west

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.
5. (ecclesiastial) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the east, or the part containing the chancel and choir.

west (not comparable)

1. Towards the west; westwards.

west (third-person singular simple present wests, present participle westing, simple past and past participle wested)

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.

• Stew, Tews, ewts, stew, tews, wets

From Old Dutch west, from Proto-Germanic *westrą. Compare German West, English and West Frisian west, Danish vest.

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west

1. (only in compounds) west
2. westwards

• westwaarts

• oost

• westen
• westelijk

• → Papiamentu: wèst

west m (invariable)

1. West (historic area of America)

west f

1. act of tiring or getting tired

west

1. past participle of wesen

• weste, wæst, weeste

From Old English west, in turn from Proto-Germanic *westrą.

• IPA^(key): /wɛst/, /ˈwɛːst(ə)/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

west

1. west (compass point)
2. A location to the south; the south
3. The west wind

• (compass point): north, east, south

• westerne
• westward

• English: west
• Scots: wast

• “west (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29-03-2018.

west

1. west, western
2. At the west

• English: west
• Scots: wast

• “west (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29-03-2018.

west

1. To the west, westards, westbound
2. From the west, western
3. In the west

• English: west
• Scots: wast

• “west (adv,)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29-03-2018.

• ƿest

From Proto-Germanic *westrą, whence also Old High German west, Old Norse vestr.

• IPA^(key): /west/

west

1. west

• Middle English: west
  • English: west
  • Scots: wast
• Old French: west (borrowed)
  • French: ouest

Borrowed from Old English west.

west

1. west

• French: ouest
  • Spanish: oeste
  • Catalan: oest
  • Galician: oeste
  • Italian: ovest