wester

A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.

Adjective

  1. Western, westerly.
    • This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […] - 1828, The Picture of Scotland, page 187:
    • There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […] - 1885, Alex Johnston Warden, Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People,...
    • It is styled, as we have seen, Wester Rires, which implies an Easter Rires; and this last portion of it probably lay to the north-east, and included […] - 1887, Walter Wood, The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and...
  2. comparative form of west: more west
    • President-elect Nixon [...] pointed out that Alaska is even wester than Hawaii. [...] had Mr. Nixon searched just a few leagues wester our Secretary of the Interior might have turned out to be a citizen of Kichighinsk....

Origin

Etymology tree English west English -er English wester From west + -er.

Related

easter

Derived

Wester Hailes Wester Ross

Noun

  1. A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.

Forms

westers

Verb

  1. To move towards the west
    • My sun is westering, and the lengthening shadows remind me to work while it is day. - 1910, James George Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, volume 1, page ix:
    • The hills rose scarlet and gold to the north of the little town, and the westering sun shone ruddily and mystically on the crude new stone and plaster buildings of the dusty forum and the wooden walls of the circus some...
    • The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, - 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XI, line 1-2:

Forms

westers westering westered

Derived

westering