West

West

1. The Western world; the regions, primarily situated in the Western Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Europe.
2. (historical) the Western Bloc (the noncommunist countries of Europe and America)
3. (US) The Western United States in the 19th century era of terrestrial expansion; the Wild West.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

4. The western states of the United States.
5. The European Union; a Western Region that is primarily an economic and political Bloc that covers 28 member states.
6. Regions or countries lying to the west of a specified or implied point of orientation.
7. The western part of any region.

   Senegal is a nation that lies in the West.

8. The one of four positions at 90-degree intervals that lies to the west or at the left of a diagram.
9. A person (as a bridge player) occupying this position during a specified activity.
10. A surname​ for a newcomer from the west, or someone who lived to the west of a village.

• George West
• Midwest

• Stew, Tews, ewts, stew, tews, wets

From Old High German west, from Proto-Germanic *westrą. Compare Dutch, English, and West Frisian west, Danish vest.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

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West m (genitive Wests or West, no plural)

1. the west (used without article; a short form of Westen)
   • der Wind kommt aus West

     the wind is coming from the west

2. a wind coming from the west (used with article)

• Ost

• westlich
• westwärts

• Nord
• Süd