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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A location in the western part of a country, region, or city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("west" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "West"):
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Attribute:
western (relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River
Synonyms:
West; western United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "West"):
Santa Fe Trail (a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century)
Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)
Northwest; northwestern United States (the northwestern region of the United States)
West Coast (the western seaboard of the United States from Washington to southern California)
Attribute:
western (of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River)
Domain member region:
sourdough (a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska))
dry wash; wash (the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon))
butte (a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides)
ghost town (a deserted settlement (especially in western United States))
Instance hyponyms:
Wild West (the western United States during its frontier period)
Holonyms ("West" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Sense 4
Meaning:
English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820)
Synonyms:
Benjamin West; West
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
painter (an artist who paints)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States film actress (1892-1980)
Synonyms:
Mae West; West
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
actress (a female actor)
comedienne (a female comedian)
Sense 6
Meaning:
British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983)
Synonyms:
Cicily Isabel Fairfield; Dame Rebecca West; Rebecca West; West
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 7
Meaning:
The cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("west" is a kind of...):
cardinal compass point (one of the four main compass points)
Sense 8
Meaning:
The direction corresponding to the westward cardinal compass point
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("west" is a kind of...):
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated in or facing or moving toward the west
Classified under:
Similar:
westbound; westerly; westward (moving toward the west)
western (lying toward or situated in the west)
westerly; western (of wind; from the west)
westernmost; westmost (farthest to the west)
westside (of the western part of a city)
Antonym:
east (situated in or facing or moving toward the east)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To, toward, or in the west
Example:
situated west of Boston
Classified under:
Context examples:
But the sun already is low in the west, and there will scarce be light for these courses.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Rushworth talked of the west front.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A year and a half is the very utmost that they can have lived at West Hall; and how they got their fortune nobody knows.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The outbreak is the first in West Africa and the first to affect major cities.
(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)
The region is far west of the hemisphere NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft viewed during close approach last summer.
(Pluto’s ‘Halo’ Craters, NASA)
North by ten and by ten, east by five and by five, south by two and by two, west by one and by one, and so under.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The other secret agents whom I have named live in the extreme West End.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was broad day when I awoke and found myself tossing at the south-west end of Treasure Island.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The ice cracked behind us and was driven with force towards the north; a breeze sprang from the west, and on the 11th the passage towards the south became perfectly free.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It is most commonly found in West African countries and causes symptoms of infection resembling those of M. tuberculosis.
(Mycobacterium africanum, NCI Thesaurus)
