Dictionary Entry
west
west is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, adjective, adverb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 18 senses
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- 1noun
The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.
- 2noun
A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.
- 3noun
The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.
- 4noun
Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article.
- 5adjective
Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.
- 6adverb
Westward.
- 7intransitive verb
To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.
- 8intransitive verb
To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.
- 9noun
a location in the western part of a country, region, or city
- 10noun
the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America
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- 11noun
the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River
- 12noun
English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820)
- 13noun
United States film actress (1892-1980)
- 14noun
British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983)
- 15noun
the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
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- 16noun
the direction corresponding to the westward cardinal compass point
- 17adjective
situated in or facing or moving toward the west
- 18adverb
to, toward, or in the west
"we moved west to Arizona"
"situated west of Boston"
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