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West

noun

The countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America. Synonym: Occident.

The cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees. Synonyms: due west, W, westward.

The region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River. Synonym: western United States.

The direction corresponding to the westward cardinal compass point.

British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983). Synonyms: Cicily Isabel Fairfield, Dame Rebecca West, Rebecca West.

United States film actress (1892-1980). Synonym: Mae West.

English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820). Synonym: Benjamin West.

A location in the western part of a country, region, or city.

adjective

Situated in or facing or moving toward the west. Antonym: east.

adverb

To, toward, or in the west. "Situated west of Boston"

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"West" Quotes from Famous Books

... each individual to increase and to secure the product of his labor would turn the current of production away from the monopolists and toward the producers. With a lot in the public domain, a wage-worker might soon live in his own cottage. As the settler often did in the West, to acquire a home he might first build two or four rooms as the rear, and, living in it, with later savings put up the front. A house and a vegetable garden, with the increased consequent thrift rarely in such situation ...

— Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum • James W. Sullivan

... your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace, while covert emnity Under ...

— King Henry IV, Second Part • William Shakespeare [Chiswick edition]

... Feodorovitch, one of the lieutenants and the two private soldiers stayed to see that the last bridge over the Styr was blown up. The other five, General Alexis, his physician, and one officer and we two women started west in an effort to join the retreating regiments, who were to come up with a portion of the ...

— The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army • Margaret Vandercook

... sent east, and shee sent west, By north and south bedeene: But never a champion colde she find, Wolde fight with that ...

— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols

... camp-making was the selection of a suitable camp site. It had to be chosen with thought of the accessibility to fuel and water. It had to be sheltered from the wind, which was not always easy to manage in high altitudes, for though the prevailing winter wind in the Rockies blows from the west, it swirls and eddies in the canyons, coming from most unexpected and unwelcome directions and often from all points of the compass in turn. Usually ready-made camps, overhanging cliffs, were available. When they were not, my ingenuity rose ...

— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills

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