West is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WEST in dictionary:

VERB:
• to move towards the west, also WESTER
• Westward.
• To pass to the west; to set, as the sun.
• To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west.
• move in westerly direction
NOUN:
• a part of the compass, also WAST
• the direction towards the point of the horizon where the sun sets at the equinoxes, on the left-hand side of a person facing north
• the compass point corresponding to west.
• the western part of the world or of a specified country, region, or town
• Europe and North America seen in contrast to other civilizations
• the non-Communist states of Europe and North America, contrasted with the former Communist states of eastern Europe
• the western part of the United States, especially the states west of the Mississippi.
• the player sitting to the right of North and partnering East
• part of the horizon where the sun sets
• 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.
• A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.
• The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.
• 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.
• the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America
• the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
• the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River
• the direction corresponding to the westward cardinal compass point
• British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983)
• United States film actress (1892-1980)
• English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820)
• a location in the western part of a country, region, or city
ADVERB:
• to or towards the west
• to, toward, or in the west
• in, to, or towards the west
ADJECTIVE:
• lying towards, near, or facing the west
• (of a wind) blowing from the west
• of or denoting the western part of a specified area, city, or country or its inhabitants
• 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.
• situated in or facing or moving toward the west
• in the west
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a cardinal point of the compass

Words related to WEST

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Words that contain WEST

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How to use WEST in a sentence

• DEADLOCK IN THE WEST During July and August there were no general engagements of importance in the Western theatre of war.
• West snatched up a rifle and dropped a bullet in front of the nearest Indian.
• The commercial interests of the whole country, both East and West, would be greatly promoted by such a road, and, above all, it would be a powerful additional bond of union.
• The children were all together in a little street a quarter of a mile west of the Cathedral, just where the last three shells had fallen.
• Hence the simplicity of private dwellings in mediaeval times both in the East and West.
• But how inadequate was their provision! The salaries scarcely answer for pocket money in the West Indies.
• That is to say, the person in the West End has twice the chance for life that the person has in the East End.
• This position rested on the fortress of Maubeuge on the right and extended west to Jenlain, southeast of Valenciennes, on the left.
• Our Common Servitude Letter of December 16, 1922 Letter of December 23rd, 1922 Letter of January 12, 1923 Star of the West Letter of January 16, 1923.
• In these days the East is in need of material progress and the West is in want of a spiritual idea.
• A short drive through those singular streets where East meets West and mingles, in the sudden, violet dusk of Lower Egypt, and he was amid the bustle of the popular hotel.
• Here you have on the one hand a group of American college women representing no one locality, no narrow section of American life, but drawn from east and west, north and south.
• My eye swept along with that winding mark, farther and farther to the west, until the cleft, growing larger and closer, revealed itself as a wild and winding canyon.
• I went on up the mountain and from the top I saw that the land west of us looked more and more barren.
• The telegram merely stated that he had made his way to the nearest village, where a clergyman had provided him with the funds needed for his return to West Point.
• There are few things in the world quieter than a West African forest in the daytime.
• There was no sound, no movement, and West drew back from contact with the object, shrinking in horror.
• In Surigao Strait the flood tide sets to the west, and the ebb to the east.
• The Germans now have in the West probably about 130 divisions.
• This is generally considered a part of Jeffreys and is often spoken of as West Jeffreys by the fishermen.
• This grows both in the East and West Indies, where I have seen and eaten of it.
• The compass does not indicate the true north in all parts of the earth, the needle varying in the North Atlantic Ocean from thirty degrees east to nearly thirty degrees west.
• News has reached us from the west of some great disaster at Ticonderoga.
• In the name and by the authority of his Majesty Christian VIII, King of Denmark, he proclaimed freedom to every slave in the Danish West Indies.
• If another campaign takes place, it is acknowledged, that all her efforts are to be exerted against the West Indies.

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