英和和英

形容詞

westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

1. Facing the west; directed towards the west.

   Synonyms: westward, westly, ponent

   Antonyms: easterly, eastward

   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.

   Synonyms: western, westly, ponent, west

   Antonyms: easterly, eastward, eastern

   the westerly side of a lake

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

     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.

3. (of wind) Coming from the west.

   Synonyms: westly, ponent, eastward

   Antonyms: easterly, westward

   a westerly wind

   • 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):

     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.

関連する語

• (wind): wester
• go west
• out west

副詞

westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

1. Towards the west.

   Synonym: westward

使用する際の注意点

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

同意語

• westly

名詞

westerly (plural westerlies)

1. A westerly wind or storm, one blowing or coming from the west.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:

     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.

同意語

• zephyr

派生語

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

アナグラム

• sweltery