westerly

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛs.tə(ɹ).li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛs.tɚ.li/

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westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

1. Facing the west; directed towards the west.

   a westerly course or voyage

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

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

2. Located towards or in the west.

   the westerly side of a lake

3. (of wind) Coming from the west.

   a westerly wind

• ponent
• westly

• (wind): wester

westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

1. Towards the west.

Used by land surveyors when they do not want to or cannot say specifically "west".

• westly

westerly (plural westerlies)

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

• zephyr

• north-westerly, northwesterly
• south-westerly, southwesterly

• sweltery