westerly
Meaning of westerly
adjective
- lying or moving in a westward position or direction.
he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction
the westerly end of Sunset Boulevard
- in or towards a westward position or direction.
our plan was to keep westerly
- a wind blowing from the west.
high ground and prevailing westerlies give a lot of rainfall
late 15th century: from obsolete wester ‘western’ + -ly1.
Information about westerly
- The plural form of westerly is: westerlies.
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Hyphenation of westerly
west-erly
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- westerly is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
westerly synonyms
Meaning western:
Meaning westbound:
Words that rhyme with westerly
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