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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.
3. noun. The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.
4. noun. 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.
5. adjective. 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.
6. adverb. Westward.
7. intransitive verb. To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.
8. intransitive verb. To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.
9. noun. a location in the western part of a country, region, or city
10. noun. the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America

    Synonyms: occident

11. noun. the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River
12. noun. English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820)
13. noun. United States film actress (1892-1980)
14. noun. British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983)
15. noun. the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

    Synonyms: westward

16. noun. the direction corresponding to the westward cardinal compass point
17. adjective. situated in or facing or moving toward the west
18. adverb. to, toward, or in the west

    "we moved west to Arizona"

    "situated west of Boston"

Synonyms

occident, westward

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in west:

stew, tews, wets

Common word forms

wests, wester, westing, westness

Words from these letters

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